| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vi.27 | Some shipping, unrestored. Lastly, he frets | Some shipping vnrestor'd. Lastly, he frets |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xii.8 | His fretted fortunes give him hope and fear | His fretted Fortunes giue him hope and feare |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.6 | Good sister, let us dine, and never fret. | Good Sister let vs dine, and neuer fret; |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.88 | With golden cherubins is fretted. Her andirons – | With golden Cherubins is fretted. Her Andirons |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.20 | Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. | Like Quilles vpon the fretfull Porpentine: |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.301 | this majestical roof fretted with golden fire – why, it | this Maiesticall Roofe, fretted with golden fire: why, it |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.379 | though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me. | though you can fret me, you cannot play vpon me. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.ii.2 | horse, and he frets like a gummed velvet. | Horse, and he frets like a gum'd Veluet. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.11 | Sir John, you are so fretful you cannot live | Sir Iohn, you are so fretfull, you cannot liue |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.205 | Of fair King Richard, scraped from Pomfret stones; | Of faire King Richard, scrap'd from Pomfret stones, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.77 | Fret fetlock-deep in gore, and with wild rage | Fret fet-locke deepe in gore, and with wilde rage |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.16 | And he may well in fretting spend his gall; | And he may well in fretting spend his gall, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.ii.20 | Let Henry fret and all the world repine. | Let Henry fret, and all the world repine. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.228 | So York must sit and fret and bite his tongue, | So Yorke must sit, and fret, and bite his tongue, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.ii.26 | And him to Pomfret; where, as all you know, | And him to Pumfret; where, as all you know, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.403 | Away! Though parting be a fretful corrosive, | Away: Though parting be a fretfull corosiue, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.91 | Stamp, rave, and fret, that I may sing and dance. | Stampe, raue, and fret, that I may sing and dance. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.35 | As doth a sail, filled with a fretting gust, | As doth a Saile, fill'd with a fretting Gust |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.105 | I would 'twere something that would fret the string, | I would 'twer somthing yt would fretthe string, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.104 | That fret the clouds are messengers of day. | That fret the Clouds, are Messengers of Day. |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.42 | All this? Ay, more: fret till your proud heart break; | All this? I more: Fret till your proud hart break. |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.131 | Enter the Bastard and Peter of Pomfret | Enter Bastard and Peter of Pomfret. |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.148 | From forth the streets of Pomfret, whom I found | From forth the streets of Pomfret, whom I found |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.159 | Exeunt Hubert with Peter of Pomfret | |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.282 | With cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks, | With cadent Teares fret Channels in her cheekes, |
| King Lear | KL III.i.4 | Contending with the fretful elements: | Contending with the fretfull Elements; |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.90 | Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are; | Who chafes, who frets, or where Conspirers are: |
| Macbeth | Mac V.v.25 | That struts and frets his hour upon the stage | That struts and frets his houre vpon the Stage, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.145 | Command these fretting waters from your eyes | Command these fretting waters from your eies |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.77 | When they are fretten with the gusts of heaven; | When they are fretted with the gusts of heauen: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.104 | clothes that fretted in their own grease. Think of that, a | Cloathes, that fretted in their owne grease: thinke of that, a |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.13 | me the honey bag. Do not fret yourself too much in the | mee the hony bag. Doe not fret your selfe too much in the |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.167 | Till they have fretted us a pair of graves | Till they haue fretted vs a payre of Graues, |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.52 | You must to Pomfret, not unto the Tower. | You must to Pomfret, not vnto the Tower. |
| Richard II | R2 V.iv.10 | Meaning the King at Pomfret. Come, let's go. | Meaning the King at Pomfret: Come, let's goe; |
| Richard III | R3 II.iv.42 | Lord Rivers and Lord Grey are sent to Pomfret, | Lord Riuers, and Lord Grey, / Are sent to Pomfret, |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.183 | Tomorrow are let blood at Pomfret Castle, | To morrow are let blood at Pomfret Castle, |
| Richard III | R3 III.ii.50 | The kindred of the Queen, must die at Pomfret. | The Kindred of the Queene, must dye at Pomfret. |
| Richard III | R3 III.ii.82 | The lords at Pomfret, when they rode from London, | The Lords at Pomfret, whẽ they rode from London, |
| Richard III | R3 III.ii.113 | Your friends at Pomfret, they do need the priest; | Your friends at Pomfret, they doe need the Priest, |
| Richard III | R3 III.iii.1.2 | Rivers, Grey, and Vaughan to death at Pomfret | the Nobles to death at Pomfret. |
| Richard III | R3 III.iii.8 | O Pomfret, Pomfret! O thou bloody prison, | O Pomfret, Pomfret! O thou bloody Prison! |
| Richard III | R3 III.iv.90 | Today at Pomfret bloodily were butchered, | To day at Pomfret bloodily were butcher'd, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.141 | Rivers, that died at Pomfret; despair, and die! | Riuers, that dy'de at Pomfret: dispaire, and dye. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.149 | I did but tell her she mistook her frets, | I did but tell her she mistooke her frets, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.152 | ‘ Frets, call you these?’ quoth she, ‘ I'll fume with them.’ | Frets call you these? (quoth she) Ile fume with them: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.321 | 'Twas a commodity lay fretting by you, | Twas a commodity lay fretting by you, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.227 | Nay, look not big, nor stamp, nor stare, nor fret, | Nay, looke not big, nor stampe, nor stare, nor fret, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.70 | At the sharp rowel, which he frets at rather | At the sharpe Rowell, which he freats at rather |