| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.194 | Or else it would have galled his surly nature, | Or else it would haue gall'd his surly nature, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.202 | The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum, | The sad-ey'd Iustice with his surly humme, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.45 | Under the surly Gloucester's governance? | Vnder the surly Glosters Gouernance? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.17 | See how the surly Warwick mans the wall! | See how the surly Warwicke mans the Wall. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.21 | Who glazed upon me, and went surly by, | Who glaz'd vpon me, and went surly by, |
| King John | KJ III.iii.42 | Or if that surly spirit, melancholy, | Or if that surly spirit melancholy |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.212 | 'Tis like you'll prove a jolly surly groom | 'Tis like you'll proue a iolly surly groome, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.235 | Ay, or surly borne – | I, or surley borne. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.145 | opposite with a kinsman, surly with servants. Let thy | opposite with a kinsman, surly with seruants: Let thy |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.70 | opposite with a kinsman, surly with servants, let thy | opposite with a Kinsman, surly with seruants, let thy |