| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.144.1 | By duty ruminated. | By duty ruminated. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.268 | Is ruminated, plotted, and set down, | Is ruminated, plotted, and set downe, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.chorus.24 | Sit patiently, and inly ruminate | Sit patiently, and inly ruminate |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.v.101 | I may resolve and ruminate my grief. | I may reuolue and ruminate my greefe. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.180 | For him to ruminate on this so far, until | For this to ruminate on this so farre, vntill |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.291 | ruminates, then she devises. And what they think in | ruminates, then shee deuises: and what they thinke in |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.131 | As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts | As thou dost ruminate, and giue thy worst of thoughts |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.6 | To ruminate strange plots of dire revenge; | To ruminate strange plots of dire Reuenge, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.186 | And ruminate himself – shall he be worshipped | And ruminate himselfe. Shall he be worshipt, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.252 | stride and a stand; ruminates like an hostess that hath | stride and a stand: ruminates like an hostesse, that hath |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.49.2 | That you may ruminate. | That you may ruminate. |