| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.156 | With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut, | With eyes seuere, and beard of formall cut, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.114 | It shall be with such strict and severe covenants | It shall be with such strict and seuere Couenants, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.269.1 | Lord Angelo is severe. | Lord Angelo is seuere. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.41.2 | O just, but severe law! | Oh iust, but seuere Law: |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.242 | severe that he hath forced me to tell him he is indeed | seuere, that he hath forc'd me to tell him, hee is indeede |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.250 | Should be as holy as severe; | Should be as holy, as seueare |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.290 | Come, you are too severe a moraller. As the time, | Come, you are too seuere a Moraller. As the Time, |