| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.61 | The most infectious pestilence upon thee! | The most infectious Pestilence vpon thee. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.x.9 | On our side like the tokened pestilence, | On our side, like the Token'd Pestilence, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.i.13 | Now the red pestilence strike all trades in Rome, | Now the Red Pestilence strike al Trades in Rome, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.176 | A pestilence on him for a mad rogue! | A pestlence on him for a mad Rogue, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.45 | A most arch heretic, a pestilence | A most Arch-Heretique, a Pestilence |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.80 | He is sooner caught than the pestilence, and the taker | he is sooner caught then the pestilence, and the taker |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.346 | I'll pour this pestilence into his ear: | Ile powre this pestilence into his eare: |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.284 | Devouring pestilence hangs in our air | |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.87 | Armies of pestilence; and they shall strike | Armies of Pestilence, and they shall strike |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.ii.10 | Where the infectious pestilence did reign, | Where the infectious pestilence did raigne, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.21 | A pestilence on him! Now will he be mocking: | A pestilence on him: now will he be mocking: |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.i.21 | Methought she purged the air of pestilence. | Me thought she purg'd the ayre of pestilence; |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.20 | to walk alone, like one that had the pestilence; to sigh, | to walke alone like one that had the pestilence: to sigh, |