| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL I.i.131 | underhand means laboured to dissuade him from it; | vnder-hand meanes laboured to disswade him from it; |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.131 | Whom whilst I laboured of a love to see, | Whom whil'st I laboured of a loue to see, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.226 | A fault on us, your Tribunes, that we laboured, | a fault on vs, your Tribunes, / That we labour'd |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.34 | A baseness to write fair, and laboured much | A basenesse to write faire; and laboured much |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.27 | How ill it follows, after you have laboured so hard, | How ill it followes, after you haue labour'd so hard, |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.24 | Great Kings of France and England! That I have laboured | Great Kings of France and England: that I haue labour'd |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.80 | They laboured to plant the rightful heir, | They laboured, to plant the rightfull Heire, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.191 | That for your highness' good I ever laboured | That for your Highnesse good, I euer labour'd |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.33 | Both of my life and office, I have laboured, | Both of my Life and Office, I haue labour'd, |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.v.42 | That have but laboured to attain this hour. | That haue but labour'd, to attaine this houre. |
| King John | KJ II.i.232 | And let us in – your King, whose laboured spirits, | And let vs in. Your King, whose labour'd spirits |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.113 | He laboured in his country's wrack, I know not; | he labour'd / In his Countreyes wracke, I know not: |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.240 | laboured for the poor gentleman to the extremest shore | labour'd for the poore Gentleman, to the extremest shore |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.73 | Which never laboured in their minds till now, | Which neuer labour'd in their mindes till now; |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.17 | And you are her laboured scholar. Come, queen o'th' feast – | And you are her labourd scholler: come Queene a th'feast, |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.141 | And laboured all I could to do him right. | And labour'd all I could to doe him right: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.89 | Which laboured after him to the mountain's top | Which labour'd after him to the Mountaines top, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.26 | Your words have took such pains as if they laboured | Your words haue tooke such paines, as if they labour'd |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.136 | Than others' laboured meditance, your premeditating | Then others laboured meditance: your premeditating |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.4 | Been laboured so long with ye, milked unto ye, | bin labourd so long with ye? milkd unto ye, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.42 | We have been fatuus, and laboured vainly. | We have beene fatuus, and laboured vainely. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.79 | Was vainly laboured in me; you outwent me, | Was vainely labour'd in me, you outwent me, |