| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vi.40 | How now, monsieur! This drum sticks sorely | How now Monsieur? This drumme sticks sorely |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.vi.19 | Of which I do accuse myself so sorely | Of which I do accuse my selfe so forely, |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.14 | As a man sorely tainted, to his answer, | As a man sorely tainted, to his Answer, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.296 | Do sorely ruffle. For many miles about | Do sorely ruffle, for many Miles about |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.59 | The dogs did yell; put ‘ L ’ to sore, then sorel jumps from thicket; | The Dogges did yell, put ell to Sore, then Sorell iumps from thicket: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.60 | Or pricket, sore, or else sorel, the people fall a-hooting. | Or Pricket-sore, or else Sorell, the people fall a hooting. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.61 | If sore be sore, then ‘ L ’ to sore makes fifty sores o' sorel: | If Sore be sore, then ell to Sore, makes fiftie sores O sorell: |
| Macbeth | Mac V.i.50 | What a sigh is there! The heart is sorely charged. | What a sigh is there? The hart is sorely charg'd. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.18 | Sorely to say I did. It is as bitter | Sorely, to say I did: it is as bitter |