| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.67 | follow worse till the worst of all follow him laughing to | follow worse, till the worst of all follow him laughing to |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.4 | I am so: I do love it better than laughing. | I am so: I doe loue it better then laughing. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.ii.108 | Were it not for laughing I should pity him. | wer't not for laughing, I should pitty him. |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.113 | And let another half stand laughing by, | And let another halfe stand laughing by, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.12 | With envious looks, laughing at thy shame, | With enuious Lookes laughing at thy shame, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.849 | Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools. | Which shallow laughing hearers giue to fooles: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.39 | Mislead night-wanderers, laughing at their harm? | Misleade night-wanderers, laughing at their harme, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.321 | laughing. | laughing. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.20 | of laughing, as, ah, ha, he! | of laughing, as ha, ha, he. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.240 | Went they not quickly, I should die with laughing. | Went they not quickly, I should die with laughing. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.489 | Strange times, that weep with laughing, not with weeping! | Strange times yt weepe with laughing, not with weeping. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.143 | But there was such laughing – Queen Hecuba | But there was such laughing, Queene Hecuba |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.150 | At what was all this laughing? | At what was all this laughing? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.166 | him.’ But there was such laughing, and Helen so | him: but there was such laughing, and Hellen so |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.287 | Of laughing with a sigh? – a note infallible | Of Laughter, with a sigh? (a Note infallible |