| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym 1IV.ii.145.1 | More perilous than the head. | More perillous then the head. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.102 | Unsifted in such perilous circumstance. | Vnsifted in such perillous Circumstance. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.43 | A perilous gash, a very limb lopped off – | A perillous Gash, a very Limme lopt off: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.ii.95 | In the adventure of this perilous day. | In the aduenture of this perillous day. |
| Henry V | H5 I.chorus.22 | The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder. | The perillous narrow Ocean parts asunder. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.192 | You pay him then! That's a perilous shot out | You pay him then: that's a perillous shot out |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.47 | Submitting me unto the perilous night, | Submitting me vnto the perillous Night; |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.133 | Teach me an answer to this perilous time. | Teach me an answere to this perillous time. |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.13 | This gentle offer of the perilous time. | This gentle offer of the perillous time. |
| Macbeth | Mac V.iii.44 | Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff | Cleanse the stufft bosome, of that perillous stuffe |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.172 | Who would believe me? O perilous mouths, | Who would beleeue me? O perilous mouthes |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.55 | A perilous knock. And it cried bitterly. | A perilous knock, and it cryed bitterly. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.40 | You know a sword employed is perilous, | You know, a sword imploy'd is perillous, |