| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.302 | Which is my heaven to have. (To an asp) Come, thou mortal wretch, | Which is my heauen to haue. Come thou mortal wretch, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.27 | Fie on thee, wretch. 'Tis pity that thou livest | Fie on thee wretch, 'tis pitty that thou liu'st |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.241 | A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch, | A needy-hollow-ey'd-sharpe-looking-wretch; |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ix.48 | Or foiled some debile wretch, which without note | or foyl'd some debile Wretch, / Which without note, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.163.2 | Thou wretch, despite o'erwhelm thee! | Thou wretch, despight ore-whelme thee: |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.112 | The contract you pretend with that base wretch, | The Contract you pretend with that base Wretch, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.i.11 | Me, wretch, more worth your vengeance. But alack, | Me (wretch) more worth your Vengeance. But alacke, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.181 | And she alone were cold: whereat I, wretch, | And she alone, were cold: Whereat, I wretch |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.51 | Upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor | Vpon a wretch, whose Naturall gifts were poore |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.168 | But look where sadly the poor wretch comes reading. | But looke where sadly the poore wretch / Comes reading. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.182 | Pulled the poor wretch from her melodious lay | Pul'd the poore wretch from her melodious buy, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.140 | And as the wretch whose fever-weakened joints, | And as the Wretch, whose Feauer-weakned ioynts, |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.53 | Are heavy orisons 'gainst this poor wretch! | Are heauy Orisons 'gainst this poore wretch: |
| Henry V | H5 IV.chorus.41 | That every wretch, pining and pale before, | That euery Wretch, pining and pale before, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.271 | And but for ceremony, such a wretch, | And but for Ceremonie, such a Wretch, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.43 | Laughest thou, wretch? Thy mirth shall turn to moan. | Laughest thou Wretch? / Thy mirth shall turne to moane. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.7 | Decrepit miser! Base ignoble wretch! | Decrepit Miser, base ignoble Wretch, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.211 | And binds the wretch, and beats it when it strays, | And binds the Wretch, and beats it when it strayes, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.307 | Fie, coward woman and soft-hearted wretch! | Fye Coward woman, and soft harted wretch, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.iii.20 | Look with a gentle eye upon this wretch; | Looke with a gentle eye vpon this Wretch, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.x.75 | Die, damned wretch, the curse of her that bare thee; | Die damned Wretch, the curse of her that bare thee: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.231 | I shame to hear thee speak. Ah, timorous wretch! | I shame to heare thee speake: ah timorous Wretch, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iii.12 | So looks the pent-up lion o'er the wretch | So looks the pent-vp Lyon o're the Wretch, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.47 | That she, poor wretch, for grief can speak no more; | That she (poore Wretch) for greefe can speake no more: |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.110 | Being distressed, was by that wretch betrayed, | Being distrest; was by that wretch betraid, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.60 | I hold thee for a false pernicious wretch; | I hould thee for a false pernitious wretch, |
| King John | KJ III.i.115 | That bloody spoil. Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward! | That bloudy spoyle: thou slaue thou wretch, yu coward, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.212 | Than on a wretch whom Nature is ashamed | Then on a wretch whom Nature is asham'd |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.51 | Find out their enemies now. Tremble, thou wretch | Finde out their enemies now. Tremble thou Wretch, |
| King Lear | KL IV.i.8 | The wretch that thou hast blown unto the worst | The Wretch that thou hast blowne vnto the worst, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.204 | A sight most pitiful in the meanest wretch, | A sight most pittifull in the meanest wretch, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.140 | O faithless coward! O dishonest wretch! | Oh faithlesse Coward, oh dishonest wretch, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.79 | Persuade this rude wretch willingly to die. | Perswade this rude wretch willingly to die. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.133 | And you shall have your bosom on this wretch, | And you shal haue your bosome on this wretch, |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.105 | By heaven, fond wretch, thou know'st not what thou speak'st, | By heauen (fond wretch) yu knowst not what thou speak'st, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.4 | A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch, | A stonie aduersary, an inhumane wretch, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.367 | Puts the wretch that lies in woe | Puts the wretch that lies in woe, |
| Othello | Oth I.i.115 | What profane wretch art thou? | What prophane wretch art thou? |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.90 | Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul, | Excellent wretch: Perdition catch my Soule |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.14 | If any wretch have put this in your head, | If any wretch haue put this in your head, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.293 | This wretch hath part confessed his villainy. | This wretch hath part confest his Villany: |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.80 | Camest thou by this ill tidings? Speak, thou wretch! | Cam'st thou by this ill-tydings? Speake thou wretch. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.17 | More direful hap betide that hated wretch | More direfull hap betide that hated Wretch |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.139 | From all the slaughters, wretch, that thou hast done! | From all the slaughters (Wretch) that thou hast done. |
| Richard III | R3 V.v.5 | From the dead temples of this bloody wretch | From the dead Temples of this bloudy Wretch, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.45 | The pretty wretch left crying and said ‘ Ay.’ | the pretty wretch lefte crying, & said I: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.160 | Hang thee, young baggage! Disobedient wretch! | Hang thee young baggage, disobedient wretch, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.52 | Here lives a caitiff wretch would sell it him.’ | Here liues a Caitiffe wretch would sell it him. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.306 | A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew. | A meacocke wretch can make the curstest shrew: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.59 | Sly, frantic wretch, that holp'st to make me great, | Sly franticke wretch, that holp'st to make me great, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.63 | Die, frantic wretch, for this accursed deed. | Die franticke wretch, for this accursed deed. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.176 | Give sentence on this execrable wretch | Giue sentence on this execrable Wretch, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.31 | Ha, ha! Alas, poor wretch! A poor capocchia, | Ha, ha: alas poore wretch: a poore Chipochia, |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.i.46 | Will it be ever thus? Ungracious wretch, | Will it be euer thus? Vngracious wretch, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.48 | And still rest thine. The storm begins. Poor wretch, | And still rest thine. The storme beginnes, poore wretch, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.455 | Where no priest shovels in dust. (To Perdita) O cursed wretch, | Where no Priest shouels-in dust. Oh cursed wretch, |