| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.62 | From most true wretchedness: so thou, Posthumus, | From most true wretchednesse. So thou, Posthumus |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.123 | To me above this wretchedness? All your studies | To me, aboue this wretchednesse? All your Studies |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.84 | And leave me here in wretchedness behind ye? | And leaue me heere in wretchednesse, behinde ye? |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.61 | Is wretchedness deprived that benefit | Is wretchednesse depriu'd that benefit |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.85 | I love not to see wretchedness o'ercharged, | I loue not to see wretchednesse orecharged; |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.26 | My wretchedness unto a row of pins | My wretchednesse, vnto a Rowe of Pinnes, |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.237 | Whilst that my wretchedness doth bait myself, | Whil'st that my wretchednesse doth bait my selfe, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.68 | Art thou so bare and full of wretchedness | Art thou so bare and full of wretchednesse, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.ii.30 | O the fierce wretchedness that glory brings us! | Oh the fierce wretchednesse that Glory brings vs! |