| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.73 | And piteous plainings of the pretty babes, | And pitteous playnings of the prettie babes |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.207 | They vented their complainings; which being answered, | They vented their Complainings, which being answer'd |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.375 | Thou mov'st no less with thy complaining than | Thou mou'st no lesse with thy complaining, then |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.175 | After our sentence plaining comes too late. | After our sentence, plaining comes too late. |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.76 | Humbly complaining to her deity | Humbly complaining to her Deitie, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.87 | Poor heart, adieu! I pity thy complaining. | Poore heart adieu, I pittie thy complaining. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.127 | He couples it to his complaining names. | He couples it, to his complaining Names; |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.86 | Will well become such sweet complaining grievance. | Will well become such sweet complaining grieuance: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.5 | And to the nightingale's complaining notes | And to the Nightingales complaining Notes |