| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.7 | Would be interpreted a thing perplexed | Would be interpreted a thing perplex'd |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iii.41 | Perplexed in all. The heavens still must work. | Perplext in all. The Heauens still must worke: |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.108.1 | Why stands he so perplexed? | Why stands he so perplext? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.v.95 | I rest perplexed with a thousand cares. | I rest perplexed with a thousand Cares. |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.189 | For whom even now my soul was much perplexed. | For whom euen now my soule was much perplext |
| King John | KJ III.i.221 | I am perplexed, and know not what to say. | I am perplext, and know not what to say. |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.342 | Perplexed in the extreme; of one whose hand | Perplexed in the extreame: Of one, whose hand |