| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.40 | Must you be therefore proud and pitiless? | Must you be therefore prowd and pittilesse? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.35 | A fiend, a fairy, pitiless and rough; |
A Feind, a Fairie, pittilesse and ruffe: |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.29 | That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, | That bide the pelting of this pittilesse storme, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.162 | Even for his sake am I pitiless. | Euen for his sake am I pittilesse: |