| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.229 | vexation. | vexation. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.88 | He's shrewdly vexed at something. Look, he | He's shrewdly vext at something. Looke he |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.22 | Vex not his prescience; be attentive. | Vex not his prescience, be attentiue. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.140 | Give him deserved vexation. Let a guard | Giue him deseru'd vexation. Let a guard |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.ii.2 | The nobility are vexed, whom we see have sided | The Nobility are vexed, whom we see haue sided |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.65 | Harm not yourself with your vexation, | Harme not your selfe with your vexation, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.5 | Vexations of it! Had I been thief-stolen, | Vexations of it. Had I bin Theefe-stolne, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.i.17 | I am not vexed more at any thing in th' earth: a pox | I am not vext more at any thing in th'earth: a pox |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.144 | vex her I will execute in the clothes that she so | vex her, I will execute in the Cloathes that she so |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.42 | from this earth-vexing smart. | from this earth-vexing smart. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.26 | Is with a kind of colic pinched and vexed | Is with a kinde of Collick pincht and vext, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.13 | They may vex us with shot or with assault. | They may vex vs with Shot or with Assault. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iii.41 | Away! Vexation almost stops my breath | Away, vexation almost stoppes my breath, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.73 | Not all these lords do vex me half so much | Not all these Lords do vex me halfe so much, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.68 | If so thou thinkest, vex him with eager words. | If so thou think'st, / Vex him with eager Words. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.130 | They vex me past my patience. Pray you, pass on. | They vexe me past my patience, pray you passe on; |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.104.2 | He is vexed at something. | He is vex'd at something. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.107.1 | Of this man to be vexed? | Of this man to be vex'd? |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.39 | Merely upon myself. Vexed I am | Meerely vpon my selfe. Vexed I am |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.114 | When grief and blood ill-tempered vexeth him? | When greefe and blood ill temper'd, vexeth him? |
| King John | KJ II.i.253 | And with a blessed and unvexed retire, | And with a blessed and vn-vext retyre, |
| King John | KJ II.i.336 | Whose passage, vexed with thy impediment, | Whose passage vext with thy impediment, |
| King John | KJ III.i.17 | With my vexed spirits I cannot take a truce, | With my vext spirits, I cannot take a Truce, |
| King John | KJ III.iv.109 | Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man, | Vexing the dull eare of a drowsie man; |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.58 | some charity, whom the foul fiend vexes. There could I | some charitie, whom the foule Fiend vexes. There could I |
| King Lear | KL IV.iv.2 | As mad as the vexed sea, singing aloud, | As mad as the vext Sea, singing alowd, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.311 | Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass. He hates him | Vex not his ghost, O let him passe, he hates him, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.22 | Full of vexation come I, with complaint | Full of vexation, come I, with complaint |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.68 | But as the fierce vexation of a dream. | But as the fierce vexation of a dreame. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.ii.25 | Proof enough to misuse the Prince, to vex | Proofe enough, to misuse the Prince, to vexe |
| Othello | Oth I.i.73 | Yet throw such chances of vexation on't, | Yet throw such chances of vexation on't, |
| Pericles | Per II.ii.30 | The word, Me pompae provexit apex. | the word: Me Pompey prouexit apex. |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.138 | A trespass that doth vex my grieved soul. | A trespasse that doth vex my greeued soule: |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.3 | Vex not yourself, nor strive not with your breath; | Vex not your selfe, nor striue not with your breth |
| Richard II | R2 III.i.2 | Bushy and Green, I will not vex your souls, | Bushie and Greene, I will not vex your soules, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.305 | Your children were vexation to your youth | Your Children were vexation to your youth, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.192 | Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears. | Being vext, a Sea nourisht with louing teares, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.158 | Now, afore God, I am so vexed that every part | Now afore God, I am so vext, that euery part |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.95 | Is my poor heart so for a kinsman vexed. | Is my poore heart so for a kinsman vext: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.28 | For such an injury would vex a saint, | For such an iniurie would vexe a very saint, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.229 | From the still-vexed Bermoothes, there she's hid; | From the still-vext Bermoothes, there she's hid; |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.5 | I tender to thy hand. All thy vexations | I tender to thy hand: All thy vexations |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.158 | Is rounded with a sleep. Sir, I am vext. | Is rounded with a sleepe: Sir, I am vext, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.237.2 | To vex thee. | To vex thee. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.52 | A sight to vex the father's soul withal. | A sight to vexe the Fathers soule withall. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.62 | 'Twill vex thy soul to hear what I shall speak: | 'Twill vexe thy soule to heare what I shall speake: |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.205 | Refuse it not, it hath no tongue to vex you. | Refuse it not, it hath no tongue, to vex you: |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.25 | Out, hyperbolical fiend, how vexest thou this man! | Out hyperbolicall fiend, how vexest thou this man? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.16 | It would be much vexation to your age. | It would be much vexation to your age. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.58 | Away, I say! Stayest thou to vex me here? | Away, I say: stayest thou to vexe me here; |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.326 | To appoint my self in this vexation; sully | To appoint my selfe in this vexation? / Sully |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.59 | Where we offenders move, appear soul-vexed, | (Where we Offendors now appeare) Soule-vext, |