| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.174 | With vildest torture let my life be ended. | With vildest torture, let my life be ended. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.150 | He may at pleasure whip, or hang, or torture, | He may at pleasure whip, or hang, or torture, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.46 | All length is torture; since the torch is out, | All length is Torture: since the Torch is out, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iii.12.1 | By a sharp torture. | By a sharpe Torture. |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iv.14.1 | Drawn on with torture. | Drawne on with Torture. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.133 | Which is our honour – bitter torture shall | (Which is our Honor) bitter torture shall |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.139 | Thou'lt torture me to leave unspoken that | Thou'lt torture me to leaue vnspoken, that |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.140.1 | Which, to be spoke, would torture thee. | Which to be spoke, wou'd torture thee. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.58 | That so her torture may be shortened. | That so her torture may be shortned. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.142 | go about to torture me in vain. | You goe about to torture me in vaine. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.247 | And torture him with grievous lingering death. | And torture him with grieuous lingring death. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.401 | From thee to die were torture more than death. | From thee to dye, were torture more then death: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.iii.11 | O, torture me no more! I will confess. | Oh torture me no more, I will confesse. |
| King John | KJ IV.i.34 | Turning dispiteous torture out of door! | Turning dispitious torture out of doore? |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.138 | Let hell want pains enough to torture me. | Let hell want paines enough to torture me: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.60 | That same Berowne I'll torture ere I go. | That same Berowne ile torture ere I goe. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.ii.21 | Than on the torture of the mind to lie | Then on the torture of the Minde to lye |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.106 | I am very glad of it. I'll plague him; I'll torture | I am very glad of it, ile plague him, ile torture |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.ii.36 | together. Well, I will take him, then torture my wife, | together. Well, I will take him, then torture my wife, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.182 | Refuse me, hate me, torture me to death! | Refuse me, hate me, torture me to death. |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.365 | If thou dost slander her and torture me, | If thou dost slander her, and torture me, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.365 | The time, the place, the torture, O, enforce it! | The Time, the Place, the Torture, oh inforce it: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.108 | To torture thee the more, being what thou art. | To torture thee the more, being what thou art, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.86 | On pain of torture, from those bloody hands | On paine of Torture, from those bloody hands |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.44 | This torture should be roared in dismal hell. | This torture should be roar'd in dismall hell, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.18 | But purgatory, torture, hell itself. | But Purgatorie, Torture, hell it selfe: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.29 | 'Tis torture, and not mercy. Heaven is here, | 'Tis Torture and not mercy, heauen is here |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.115 | In him seemed torture. This anatomy | In him seem'd torture: this Anatomie |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.180 | On thy soul's peril and thy body's torture, | On thy Soules perill, and thy Bodyes torture, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.175 | In leads or oils? What old or newer torture | In Leads, or Oyles? What old, or newer Torture |