| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.42 | No more a soldier. Bruised pieces, go; | No more a Soldier: bruised peeces go, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.34 | A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, | A wretched soule bruis'd with aduersitie, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.i.47 | That's yet unbruised. Bring me but out at gate. | That's yet vnbruis'd: bring me but out at gate. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.8 | Nor bruise her flowerets with the armed hoofs | Nor bruise her Flowrets with the Armed hoofes |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.57 | Was parmacity for an inward bruise, | Was Parmacity, for an inward bruise: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.v.21 | And falling from a hill he was so bruised | And falling from a hill, he was so bruiz'd |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.98 | That feel the bruises of the days before, | That feele the bruizes of the dayes before, |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.120 | thought not good to bruise an injury till it were full | thought not good to bruise an iniurie, till it were full |
| Henry V | H5 V.chorus.18 | His bruised helmet and his bended sword | His bruised Helmet, and his bended Sword |
| King John | KJ II.i.254 | With unhacked swords and helmets all unbruised, | With vnhack'd swords, and Helmets all vnbruis'd, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.146 | Which, for they yet glance by and scarcely bruise, | Which for they yet glance by, and scarely bruise, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.397 | Bruise me with scorn, confound me with a flout, | Bruise me with scorne, confound me with a flout. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.6 | Than fall, and bruise to death. Alas, this gentleman, | Then fall, and bruise to death: alas, this gentleman |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.263 | I had rather walk here, I thank you. I bruised my | I had rather walke here (I thanke you) I bruiz'd my |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.65 | And with grey hairs and bruise of many days, | And with grey haires and bruise of many daies, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.109 | live unbruised and love my cousin. | liue vnbruis'd, and loue my cousin. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.217 | That the bruised heart was pieced through the ear. | That the bruized heart was pierc'd through the eares. |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.6 | Our bruised arms hung up for monuments, | Our bruised armes hung vp for Monuments; |
| Richard III | R3 V.ii.2 | Bruised underneath the yoke of tyranny, | Bruis'd vnderneath the yoake of Tyranny, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.33 | But where unbruised youth with unstuffed brain | But where vnbrused youth with vnstuft braine |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.4 | Most true. The law shall bruise him. | Most true; the Law shall bruise 'em. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC prologue.14 | The fresh and yet unbruised Greeks do pitch | The fresh and yet vnbruised Greekes do pitch |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.v.14 | Sore hurt and bruised; the dreadful Sagittary | Sore hurt and bruised; the dreadfull Sagittary |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.88.1 | A bruise would be dishonour. | A bruise would be dishonour. |