| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.14 | That you should fashion, wrest, or bow your reading, | That you should fashion, wrest, or bow your reading, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.186 | He'll wrest the sense and hold us here all day. | Hee'le wrest the sence, and hold vs here all day. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.212 | Wrest once the law to your authority, | Wrest once the Law to your authority. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.30 | thinking do not wrest true speaking, I'll offend nobody. | thinking doe not wrest true speaking, Ile offend no body, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.44 | But I of these will wrest an alphabet, | But I (of these) will wrest an Alphabet, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.23 | I know, is such a wrest in their affairs | I know is such a wrest in their affaires; |