| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.48 | I have felt so many quirks of joy and grief | I haue felt so many quirkes of ioy and greefe, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.22 | And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, | And yet it irkes me the poore dapled fooles |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.95 | Thy company, which erst was irksome to me, | Thy company, which erst was irkesome to me |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iv.29 | Master Fer! I'll fer him, and firk him, and ferret | M. Fer: Ile fer him, and firke him, and ferret |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iv.31 | I do not know the French for fer, and ferret, and firk. | I doe not know the French for fer, and ferret, and firke. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.105 | It irks his heart he cannot be revenged. | It irkes his heart he cannot be reueng'd. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.54 | How irksome is this music to my heart! | How irkesome is this Musick to my heart? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.6 | To see this sight, it irks my very soul. | To see this sight, it irkes my very soule: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.229 | chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken | chance haue some odde quirkes and remnants of witte broken |
| Othello | Oth II.i.63 | One that excels the quirks of blazoning pens, | One that excels the quirkes of Blazoning pens, |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.7 | profession, she has me her quirks, her reasons, her | profession, shee has me her quirks, her reasons, her |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.185 | I know she is an irksome brawling scold. | I know she is an irkesome brawling scold: |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.239 | to taste their valour. Belike this is a man of that quirk. | to taste their valour: belike this is a man of that quirke. |