| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.13 | Thy burning car never had scorched the earth! | Thy burning Carre neuer had scorch'd the earth. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.18 | Not sensible of fire, remained unscorched. | Not sensible of fire, remain'd vnscorch'd. |
| King John | KJ III.i.278 | Within the scorched veins of one new-burned. | Within the scorched veines of one new burn'd: |
| Macbeth | Mac III.ii.13 | We have scorched the snake, not killed it; | We haue scorch'd the Snake, not kill'd it: |