| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.174 | we come within our awful banks again | wee come within our awfull banks againe |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.86 | to pluck down justice from your awful bench | to plucke downe iustice from your awefull bench |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.98 | and not to grace an awful princely sceptre | and not to grace an awefull princely scepter |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.153 | and wring the awful sceptre from his fist | and wring the awefull scepter from his fist |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.II.4 | that will prove awful both in deed and word | that will proue awfull both in deed and word |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.76 | to pay their awful duty to our presence | to pay their awfull dutie to our presence |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.108 | and awful rule and right supremacy | an awfull rule and right supremicie |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.i.46 | thrust from the company of awful men | thrust from the company of awfull men |