| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.146 | That this distempered messenger of wet, | That this distempered messenger of wet? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.82 | Of pale distemperatures and foes to life? | Of pale distemperatures, and foes to life? |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.105 | And fell below his stem. His sword, death's stamp, | And fell below his Stem: his Sword, Deaths stampe, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.193 | Will drive away distemper. To some shade, | Will driue away distemper. To some shade, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.55 | The head and source of all your son's distemper. | The head and sourse of all your Sonnes distemper. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.310 | distempered. | distemper'd. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.344 | Good my lord, what is your cause of distemper? | Good my Lord, what is your cause of distemper? |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.124 | Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper | Vpon the heate and flame of thy distemper |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.31 | Our grandam earth, having this distemperature, | Our Grandam Earth, hauing this distemperature, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.3.1 | At his distemperature. | At his distemperature |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.41 | It is but as a body yet distempered, | It is but as a Body, yet distemper'd, |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.54 | If little faults, proceeding on distemper, | If little faults proceeding on distemper, |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.62 | Had twenty years been made. This is a stem | Had twentie yeeres been made. This is a Stem |
| Henry V | H5 III.iv.13 | d'anglais vitement. Comment appelez-vous les ongles? | d' Anglois vistement, coment appelle vous le ongles? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.41 | And now declare, sweet stem from York's great stock, | And now declare sweet Stem from Yorkes great Stock, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.36 | Command an argosy to stem the waves. | Command an Argosie to stemme the Waues. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.109 | And stemming it with hearts of controversy. | And stemming it with hearts of Controuersie. |
| King John | KJ III.iv.154 | No scope of nature, no distempered day, | No scope of Nature, no distemper'd day, |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.21 | Once more today well met, distempered lords! | Once more to day well met, distemper'd Lords, |
| King John | KJ V.i.12 | This inundation of mistempered humour | This inundation of mistempred humor, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.ii.15 | He cannot buckle his distempered cause | He cannot buckle his distemper'd cause |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.204 | ha' your distemper in this kind for the wealth of Windsor | ha your distemper in this kind, for ye welth of Windsor |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.71 | and instigated by his distemper, and, forsooth, to | and instigated by his distemper, and (forsooth) to |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.25 | tameness, civility, and patience to this his distemper he | tamenesse, ciuility, and patience to this his distemper he |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.106 | And thorough this distemperature we see | And through this distemperature, we see |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.211 | Two lovely berries moulded on one stem, | Two louely berries molded on one stem, |
| Othello | Oth I.i.100 | Being full of supper and distempering draughts, | (Being full of Supper, and distempring draughtes) |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.37 | Of thirty sail; and now they do re-stem | Of thirtie Saile: and now they do re-stem |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.64 | From stem to stern. The boatswain whistles, and | from sterne to sterne, the Boatswaine whistles, and |
| Pericles | Per V.i.25 | Upon what ground is his distemperature? | Vpon what ground is his distemperature? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.87 | Throw your mistempered weapons to the ground | Throw your mistemper'd Weapons to the ground, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.29 | Young son, it argues a distempered head | Young Sonne, it argues a distempered head, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.36 | Thou art uproused with some distemperature. | Thou art vprous'd with some distemprature; |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.53 | To th' fire i'th' blood. Be more abstemious, | To th' fire ith' blood: be more abstenious, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.145 | Saw I him touched with anger so distempered. | Saw I him touch'd with anger, so distemper'd. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.170 | To the hot passion of distempered blood | To the hot passion of distemp'red blood, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.86 | with a distempered appetite. To be generous, guiltless, | with a distemper'd appetite. To be generous, guitlesse, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.i.5 | distemper yours; therefore I shall crave of you your | distemper yours; therefore I shall craue of you your |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.119 | By no mean cross her; she is then distempered | By no meane crosse her, she is then distemperd |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.3 | She is continually in a harmless distemper, | She is continually in a harmelesse distemper, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.70 | distempered the other senses; they may return and settle | distemperd the / Other sences, they may returne and settle |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.385 | Which puts some of us in distemper, but | Which puts some of vs in distemper, but |