| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.120 | That by misfortunes was my life prolonged | That by misfortunes was my life prolong'd, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iv.3 | What late misfortune is befallen King Edward? | What late misfortune is befalne King Edward? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iv.20 | And bear with mildness my misfortune's cross; | And beare with Mildnesse my misfortunes crosse: |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.374 | At my misfortunes? Can thy spirit wonder | At my misfortunes? Can thy Spirit wonder |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.21 | Misfortune to my ventures, out of doubt | Misfortune to my ventures, out of doubt |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.iv.35 | And never dare misfortune cross her foot, | And neuer dare misfortune crosse her foote, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.17 | Patch grief with proverbs, make misfortune drunk | Patch griefe with prouerbs, make misfortune drunke, |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.88 | Who only by misfortune of the seas | who onely by misfortune of the seas, |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.90 | Now, by the gods, I pity his misfortune | Now by the Gods, I pitty his misfortune, |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.49 | Or if misfortune miss the first career, | Or if misfortune misse the first carreere, |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.29 | Bearing their own misfortunes on the back | Bearing their owne misfortune on the backe |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.71 | That brings me food to make misfortune live? | That brings me food, to make misfortune liue? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.91 | Which once untangled much misfortune bodes. | which once vntangled, much misfortune bodes, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.82 | One writ with me in sour misfortune's book. | One, writ with me in sowre misfortunes booke. |