| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.167 | That like nor peace nor war? The one affrights you, | That like nor Peace, nor Warre? The one affrights you, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.75 | O my lord, my lord, I have been so affrighted! | Alas my Lord, I haue beene so affrighted. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.103 | Who then affrighted with their bloody looks | Who then affrighted with their bloody lookes, |
| Henry V | H5 I.chorus.14 | That did affright the air at Agincourt? | That did affright the Ayre at Agincourt? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.43 | The scarecrow that affrights our children so.’ | The Scar-Crow that affrights our Children so. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.47 | Their touch affrights me as a serpent's sting. | Their touch affrights me as a Serpents sting. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.32 | How now! Why starts thou? What, doth death affright? | How now? why starts thou? What doth death affright? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.33 | Thy name affrights me, in whose sound is death. | Thy name affrights me, in whose sound is death: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.207 | Even to affright thee with the view thereof. | Euen io affright thee with the view thereof. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vii.13 | Tush, man, abodements must not now affright us; | Tush man, aboadments must not now affright vs: |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.82 | People and senators, be not affrighted. | People and Senators, be not affrighted: |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.130 | Affrights not more than kings when they dispose | Affrights not more then kings when they dispose, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.172 | When adverse foreigners affright my towns | When aduerse Forreyners affright my Townes |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.140 | Did scare away, or rather did affright. | Did scarre away, or rather did affright: |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.268 | affright an imperious lion. Sue to him again, and he's | affright an Imperious Lyon. Sue to him againe, and he's |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.119 | Therefore these stops of thine affright me more: | Therefore these stops of thine, fright me the more: |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.101 | Of sun and moon, and that th' affrighted globe | Of Sunne, and Moone; and that th'affrighted Globe |
| Pericles | Per I.i.30 | For deathlike dragons here affright thee hard. | For Death like Dragons heere affright thee hard: |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.53 | But self-affrighted, tremble at his sin. | But selfe-affrighted, tremble at his sinne. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.226 | Affrights thee with a hell of ugly devils! | Affrights thee with a Hell of ougly Deuills. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.64 | No marvel, my lord, though it affrighted you; | No maruell Lord, though it affrighted you, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.309 | (Aside) Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls; | Let not our babling Dreames affright our soules: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.61 | Let them affright thee. I beseech thee, youth, | Let them affright thee. I beseech thee Youth, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.36 | She melted into air. Affrighted much, | She melted into Ayre. Affrighted much, |