| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.139 | Presents more woeful pageants than the scene | Presents more wofull Pageants then the Sceane |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.149 | Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad | Sighing like Furnace, with a wofull ballad |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.71 | O Lord, have mercy on me, woeful man! | O Lord haue mercy on me, wofull man. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.77 | That hath contrived this woeful tragedy! | That hath contriu'd this wofull Tragedie. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.51 | Which thou thyself hast given her woeful breast. | Which thou thy selfe hast giuen her wofull Brest. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.342 | To wash away my woeful monuments. | To wash away my wofull Monuments. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.45 | Ah, one that was a woeful looker-on | Ah, one that was a wofull looker on, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.107 | How will the country for these woeful chances | How will the Country, for these woful chances, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.124 | Here sits a king more woeful than you are. | Heere sits a King, more wofull then you are. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.167.2 | 'Tis woeful. | 'Tis wofull. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.201 | O woeful day! | O wofull day! |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.200 | If there be more, more woeful, hold it in; | If there be more, more wofull, hold it in, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.803 | My woeful self up in a mourning house, | My wofull selfe vp in a mourning house, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.56 | New-hatched to the woeful time. The obscure bird | New hatch'd toth' wofull time. / The obscure Bird |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.27 | I am a woeful suitor to your honour, | I am a wofull Sutor to your Honour, |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.87 | The rough and woeful music that we have, | the rough and / Wofull Musick that we haue, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.IV.3 | His woeful queen we leave at Ephesus, | His wofull Queene we leaue at Ephesus, |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.99 | Comes rushing on this woeful land at once! | Come rushing on this wofull Land at once? |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.320 | A woeful pageant have we here beheld. | A wofull Pageant haue we here beheld. |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.42 | Of woeful ages long ago betid; | Of wofull Ages, long agoe betide: |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.248 | And made her widow to a woeful bed? | And made her Widdow to a wofull Bed? |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.192 | Their kingdom's loss, my woeful banishment, | Their Kingdomes losse, my wofull Banishment, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.89 | Farewell, thou woeful welcomer of glory. | Farewell, thou wofull welcommer of glory. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.86 | Just in her case! O woeful sympathy! | Iust in her case. O wofull simpathy: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.30.2 | O woeful time! | O wofull time. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.49 | O woe! O woeful, woeful, woeful day! | O wo, O wofull, wofull, wofull day, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.50 | Most lamentable day, most woeful day | Most lamentable day, most wofull day, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.54 | O woeful day! O woeful day! | O wofull day, O wofull day. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.88 | And swear with me – as, with the woeful fere | And sweare with me, as with the wofull Feere |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.82 | Welcome, dread Fury, to my woeful house; | Welcome dread Fury to my woefull house, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.49 | I am as woeful as Virginius was, | I am as wofull as Virginius was, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.55 | A woeful Cressid 'mongst the merry Greeks! | A wofull Cressid 'mong'st the merry Greekes. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.56 | Yea, and a woeful and a piteous nullity. | Yea, and a woefull, and a pittious nullity. |