| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.ii.36 | So like a courtier, contempt nor bitterness | So like a Courtier, contempt nor bitternesse |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.3 | In bitterness. The common executioner, | In bitternesse; the common executioner |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.134 | garments were come. She said upon a time – the bitterness | Garments were come. She saide vpon a time (the bitternesse |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.177 | heat of our livers with the bitterness of your galls; and | heat of our Liuers, with the bitternes of your gals: & |
| King John | KJ III.iv.111 | That it yields naught but shame and bitterness. | That it yeelds nought but shame and bitternesse. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.22 | bitterness. | bitternesse. |
| Othello | Oth I.i.163 | Is naught but bitterness. Now, Roderigo, | Is naught but bitternesse. Now Rodorigo, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.178 | His curses then, from bitterness of soul | His Curses then, from bitternesse of Soule, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.12 | His fits, his frenzy, and his bitterness? | His fits, his frenzie, and his bitternesse? |