| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iii.93.2 | 'Tis sweating labour | 'Tis sweating Labour, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.354 | Bare-headed, sweating, knocking at the taverns, | Bare-headed, sweating, knocking at the Tauernes, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.24 | But to stand stained with travel, and sweating | But to stand stained with Trauaile, and sweating |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.82 | Page at the door, sweating and blowing and looking | Page at the doore, sweating, and blowing, and looking |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.42 | For there's a young and sweating devil here | For heere's a yong, and sweating Diuell heere |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.24 | And, in good time, here comes the sweating lord. | And in good time, heere comes the sweating Lord. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.33 | That sweating in an honourable toil | That sweating in an honourable Toyle |