| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.2 | when she wilfully seeks her own salvation? | that wilfully seekes her owne saluation? |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.80 | Who, on my soul, hath wilfully betrayed | Who (in my soule) hath wilfully betraid |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.171 | In faith, my lord, you are too wilful-blame, | In faith, my Lord, you are too wilfull blame, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.307 | wilful abuse, and then I know how to handle you. | wilfull abuse, and then I know how to handle you. |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.35 | Nor never Hydra-headed wilfulness | Nor neuer Hidra-headed Wilfulnesse |
| Henry V | H5 II.i.35 | see wilful adultery and murder committed. | see wilful adultery and murther committed. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.142 | To wilful disobedience, and rebel! | To wilfull Disobedience, and Rebell? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.31 | Peace, wilful boy, or I will charm your tongue. | Peace wilfull Boy, or I will charme your tongue. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.54 | Yet, good my lord, 'tis too much wilfulness | Yet good my Lord, tis too much wilfulnes, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.35 | As wilful stubbornness hath made perverse. | As wilfull stubbornnes hath made peruerse. |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.71 | No wilful disobedience, mighty lord, | No wilfull disobedience mightie Lord, |
| King John | KJ III.i.142 | So wilfully dost spurn; and force perforce | So wilfully dost spurne; and force perforce |
| King John | KJ V.ii.124 | The Dauphin is too wilful-opposite, | The Dolphin is too wilfull opposite |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.297.2 | O sir, to wilful men | O Sir, to wilfull men, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.90 | And do a wilful stillness entertain | And do a wilfull stilnesse entertaine, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.146 | I owe you much, and like a wilful youth, | I owe you much, and like a wilfull youth, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.ii.39 | secure and wilful Actaeon; and to these violent | secure and wilfull Acteon, and to these violent |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.346 | Or else committest thy knaveries wilfully. | Or else committ'st thy knaueries willingly. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.386 | They wilfully themselves exile from light, | They wilfully themselues dxile from light, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.205 | No remedy, my lord, when walls are so wilful | No remedie my Lord, when Wals are so wilfull, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.28 | And asked the Mayor what meant this wilful silence. | And ask'd the Maior, what meant this wilfull silence? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.89 | Patience perforce with wilful choler meeting | Patience perforce, with wilfull choler meeting, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.8 | But even with law against the wilful sons | But euen with law against the willfull Sonnes |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.255 | If ever I were wilful-negligent, | If euer I were wilfull-negligent, |