| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.127 | That pitiful rumour may report my flight | That pittifull rumour may report my flight |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.121 | such pitiful dole over them that all the beholders take | such pittiful dole ouer them, that all the beholders take |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.43 | most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. And then | most pittifull Ambition in the Foole that vses it. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.375 | crown for a pitiful bald crown. | Crowne, for a pittifull bald Crowne. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.ii.62 | I did never see such pitiful rascals. | I did neuer see such pittifull Rascals. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.110 | Who should be pitiful if you be not? | Who should be pittifull, if you be not? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.57 | Together with the pitiful complaints | Together with the pittifull complaints |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.141 | Women are soft, mild, pitiful and flexible; | Women are soft, milde, pittifull, and flexible; |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.32 | Be pitiful, dread lord, and grant it then. | Be pittifull, dread Lord, and graunt it then. |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.40 | But where he meant to ruin, pitiful. | (But where he meant to Ruine) pittifull. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.169 | Our hearts you see not; they are pitiful; | Our hearts you see not, they are pittifull: |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.72 | And make a flint-heart Scythian pitiful; | And make a flynt heart Sythian pytifull, |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.2 | Good ground, be pitiful and hurt me not! | Good ground be pittifull, and hurt me not: |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.204 | A sight most pitiful in the meanest wretch, | A sight most pittifull in the meanest wretch, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.ii.47 | Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, | Skarfe vp the tender Eye of pittifull Day, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.151 | All swollen and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye, | All swolne and Vlcerous, pittifull to the eye, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.49 | a pitiful lady. | pittifull Lady. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.29 | How pitiful I deserve – | how pittifull I deserue. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.160 | 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful; | 'Twas pittifull: 'twas wondrous pittifull. |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.209 | 'Tis pitiful: but yet Iago knows | 'Tis pittifull: but yet Iago knowes |
| Pericles | Per II.i.21 | to hear what pitiful cries they made to us to help them, | to heare, / What pittifull cryes they made to vs, to helpe them, |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.104 | Thou wouldst be more pitiful. | Thou wouldest be more pittifull: |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.140 | Or Edward's soft and pitiful like mine! | Or Edwards soft and pittifull, like mine; |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.98 | For well you know this is a pitiful case. | For well you know, this is a pitifull case. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.174 | Pitiful sight! Here lies the County slain! | Pittifull sight, here lies the Countie slaine, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.156 | Nothing so kind, but something pitiful. | Nothing so kind but something pittifull. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.8 | Be pitiful to my condemned sons, | Be pittifull to my condemned Sonnes, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.198 | taken such pains to bring you together, let all pitiful | taken such paines to bring you together, let all pittifull |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.279 | is very pitiful, and as true. | is very pittifull, and as true. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.808 | In some sort, sir: but though my case be a pitiful | In some sort, Sir: but though my case be a pittifull |