| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.22 | terrible shows in the wrack of maidenhood, cannot for | terrible shewes in the wracke of maiden-hood, cannot for |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.49 | Hath he not lost much wealth by wrack of sea? | Hath he not lost much wealth by wrack of sea, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.350 | Besides her urging of her wrack at sea – | Besides her vrging of her wracke at sea, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.84 | You look on me: what wreck discern you in me | You looke on me: what wrack discerne you in me |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.113 | And meant to wrack thee. But beshrew my jealousy. | And meant to wracke thee: but beshrew my iealousie: |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.165 | With sunken wrack and sunless treasuries. | With sunken Wrack, and sum-lesse Treasuries. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.135 | Hence grew the general wrack and massacre; | Hence grew the generall wrack and massacre: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.3 | Even like a man new haled from the rack, | Euen like a man new haled from the Wrack, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.56 | Moved with compassion of my country's wrack, | Mou'd with compassion of my Countries wracke, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.105 | Hume's knavery will be the Duchess' wrack, | Humes Knauerie will be the Duchesse Wracke, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.122 | The commonwealth hath daily run to wrack, | The Common-wealth hath dayly run to wrack, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.5 | Ay, as the rocks cheer them that fear their wrack: | I, as the rockes cheare them that feare their wrack, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.23 | From shelves and rocks that threaten us with wrack. | From Shelues and Rocks, that threaten vs with Wrack. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.151 | Give earnest penny of a further wrack, | Giue earnest peny of a further wracke, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.85 | And better some do go to wrack, than all. | And better some do go to wrack then all. |
| King John | KJ III.i.92 | But on this day let seamen fear no wrack; | But (on this day) let Sea-men feare no wracke, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.113 | He laboured in his country's wrack, I know not; | he labour'd / In his Countreyes wracke, I know not: |
| Macbeth | Mac V.v.51 | Ring the alarum bell! – Blow wind, come wrack, | Ring the Alarum Bell, blow Winde, come wracke, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.95 | wrack. | wracke. |
| Othello | Oth II.i.23 | Hath seen a grievous wrack and sufferance | Hath seene a greeuous wracke and sufferance |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.IV.12 | That monster envy, oft the wrack | That monster Enuie oft the wracke |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.267 | We see the very wrack that we must suffer, | We see the very wracke that we must suffer, |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.269 | For suffering so the causes of our wrack. | For suffering so the causes of our wracke. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.127 | These eyes could not endure that beauty's wrack; | These eyes could not endure yt beauties wrack, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.26 | The direful spectacle of the wrack, which touched | The direfull spectacle of the wracke which touch'd |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.391 | Weeping again the King my father's wrack, | Weeping againe the King my Fathers wracke. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.415 | Was in the wrack; and, but he's something stained | Was in the wracke: and but hee's something stain'd |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.489 | The wrack of all my friends, nor this man's threats | The wracke of all my friends, nor this mans threats, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.190 | One that rejoices in the common wrack, | One that reioyces in the common wracke, |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.77 | Did I redeem; a wrack past hope he was. | Did I redeeme: a wracke past hope he was: |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.263 | I shall have share in this most happy wrack. | I shall haue share in this most happy wracke, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.145 | Go, go, be gone, to save your ship from wreck, | Go, go, be gone, to saue your Ship from wrack, |