| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.35 | Leave wringing of your hands. Peace, sit you down, | Leaue wringing of your hands, peace, sit you downe, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.229 | But his own wringing! What infinite heart's ease | but his owne wringing. / What infinite hearts-ease |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.26 | Dangers, doubts, wringing of the conscience, | Dangers, doubts, wringing of the Conscience, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.31 | Enter Nurse, wringing her hands, with the ladder of cords | Enter Nurse with cords. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iii.7 | our maid howling, our cat wringing her hands, and all | our Maid howling: our Catte wringing her hands, and all |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.227 | Wringing her hands, whose whiteness so became them | Wringing her hands, whose whitenes so became them, |