| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vii.43 | Distract your army, which doth most consist | Distract your Armie, which doth most consist |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.42 | The fellow is distract, and so am I, | The fellow is distract, and so am I, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.2 | She is importunate, indeed distract. | She is importunate, indeed distract, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.318 | Mine hair be fixed on end, as one distract; | Mine haire be fixt an end, as one distract: |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.153 | That tidings came. With this she fell distract, | That tydings came. With this she fell distract, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.5 | Are quite distract with gazing on the crows, | are quite distract with gazing on the crowes, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.280 | Of my huge sorrows! Better I were distract; | Of my huge Sorrowes? Better I were distract, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.320 | one gender of herbs or distract it with many, either to | one gender of Hearbes, or distract it with many: either to |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.26 | To see thy noble uncle thus distract? | To see thy Noble Vnckle thus distract? |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.277 | They say, poor gentleman, he's much distract. | They say poore Gentleman, he's much distract. |