| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.9 | sirrah. The complaints I have heard of you I do not all | sirra: the complaints I haue heard of you I do not all |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.163 | Both suffer under this complaint we bring, | Both suffer vnder this complaint we bring, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.47 | the first complaint, hasty and tinder-like upon too | the first complaint, hasty and Tinder-like vppon, to |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.431 | The complaints I hear of thee are grievous. | The complaints I heare of thee, are grieuous. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.i.35 | There is many complaints, Davy, against that | There are many Complaints Dauy, against that |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.26 | Are every one a woe, a sore complaint | Are euery one, a Woe, a sore Complaint, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.57 | Together with the pitiful complaints | Together with the pittifull complaints |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.95 | As for the Duke of York, this late complaint | As for the Duke of Yorke, this late Complaint |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.23 | Bootless are plaints, and cureless are my wounds; | Bootlesse are Plaints, and Curelesse are my Wounds: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.41 | To hear and see her plaints, her brinish tears. | To heare and see her plaints, her Brinish Teares. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.173 | On the complaint o'th' tenants. Take good heed | On the complaint o'th'Tenants; take good heed |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.1 | If you will now unite in your complaints | If you will now vnite in your Complaints, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.48 | Given ear to our complaint, of his great grace | Giuen eare to our Complaint, of his great Grace, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.99 | Grievous – complaints of you; which, being considered, | Greeuous complaints of you; which being consider'd, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.322 | Each buzz, each fancy, each complaint, dislike, | Each buz, each fancie, each complaint, dislike, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.235 | you before me again upon any complaint whatsoever; | you before me againe vpon any complaint whatsoeuer; |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iv.11 | of complaints, and to deliver us from devices hereafter, | of Complaints, and to deliuer vs from deuices heereafter, |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.24 | Till you have heard me in my true complaint | Till you haue heard me, in my true complaint, |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.153 | Being come to knowledge that there was complaint | Being come to knowledge, that there was complaint |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.249 | Hath set the women on to this complaint. | Hath set the women on to this Complaint; |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.22 | Full of vexation come I, with complaint | Full of vexation, come I, with complaint |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.240 | Come, bring away the plaintiffs; by this time | Come, bring away the plaintiffes, by this time |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.292 | white and black, this plaintiff here, the offender, did call | white and black, this plaintiffe here, the offendour did call |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.19 | Shall out-tongue his complaints. 'Tis yet to know – | Shall out-tongue his Complaints. 'Tis yet to know, |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.42 | Where then, alas, may I complain myself? | Where then (alas may I) complaint my selfe? ? |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.126 | That hearing how our plaints and prayers do pierce, | That hearing how our plaints and prayres do pearce, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.61 | But you must trouble him with lewd complaints. | But you must trouble him with lewd complaints. |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.67 | I am not barren to bring forth complaints. | I am not barren to bring forth complaints: |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.352 | Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge | Thou shalt be both the Plaintiffe and the Iudge |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.705 | complaint may be to the flight of my master. | Complaint may be to the flight of my Master. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.832 | complaint they have to the King concerns him nothing, | Complaint they haue to the King, concernes him nothing, |