| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.53 | severed in religion, their heads are both one: they may | seuer'd in Religion, their heads are both one, they may |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.170 | Hath nobly held; our severed navy too | Hath Nobly held, our seuer'd Nauie too |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.156 | With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut, | With eyes seuere, and beard of formall cut, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.119 | Thus have you heard me severed from my bliss, | Thus haue you heard me seuer'd from my blisse, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.42 | Honour and policy, like unsevered friends, | Honor and Policy, like vnseuer'd Friends, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.204 | Well, the King hath severed you | Well, the King hath seuer'd you |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.v.48 | No more can I be severed from your side | No more can I be seuered from your side, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.114 | It shall be with such strict and severe covenants | It shall be with such strict and seuere Couenants, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.28 | But severed in a pale clear-shining sky. | But seuer'd in a pale cleare-shining Skye. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.21 | No, God forbid that I should wish them severed | no: / God forbid, that I should wish them seuer'd, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.123 | Cracked and dissevered, my renowned lord. | Crackt and disseuered my renowned Lord: |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.165 | Here flew a head dissevered from the trunk, | Heere flew a head dissuuered from the tronke, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.5 | Choked up those French mouths and dissevered them; | chokt vp those French mouths, & disseuered them |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.281 | So should my thoughts be severed from my griefs, | So should my thoughts be seuer'd from my greefes, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.269.1 | Lord Angelo is severe. | Lord Angelo is seuere. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.41.2 | O just, but severe law! | Oh iust, but seuere Law: |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.242 | severe that he hath forced me to tell him he is indeed | seuere, that he hath forc'd me to tell him, hee is indeede |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.250 | Should be as holy as severe; | Should be as holy, as seueare |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.118 | Seem they in motion? Here are severed lips | Seeme they in motion? Here are seuer'd lips |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.290 | Come, you are too severe a moraller. As the time, | Come, you are too seuere a Moraller. As the Time, |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.244 | That will the King severely prosecute | That will the King seuerely prosecute |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.269 | Unto the rigour of severest law. | Vnto the rigour of seuerest Law. |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.187 | Is she the goddess that hath severed us, | Is she the goddesse that hath seuer'd vs, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.67 | By uproars severed, as a flight of fowl | By vprores seuer'd like a flight of Fowle, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.108 | And kept severely from resort of men, | And kept seuerely from resort of men, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.155 | We were dissevered. Hastily lead away. | We were disseuer'd: Hastily lead away. |