| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.49 | austere sanctimony she accomplished; and there residing, | austere sanctimonie she accomplisht: and there residing, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.2 | Mightst thou perceive austerely in his eye |
Might'st thou perceiue austeerely in his eie, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.287 | Religion is austere, and beauty gentle: | Religion is austere and bewty gentle, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.794 | If this austere insociable life | If this austere insociable life, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.155 | My unsoiled name, th' austereness of my life, | My vnsoild name, th' austeerenesse of my life, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.1 | If I have too austerely punished you, | If I haue too austerely punish'd you, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.56 | Of grave and austere quality, tender down | Of Graue and austere qualitie, tender downe |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.66 | my familiar smile with an austere regard of control . . . | my familiar smile with an austere regard of controll. |