| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.ii.58 | What willingly he did confound he wailed, | What willingly he did confound, he wail'd, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vi.85 | Hold unbewailed their way. Welcome to Rome; | Hold vnbewayl'd their way. Welcome to Rome, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.24 | No evil lost is wailed when it is gone. |
No euill lost is wail'd, when it is gone. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.i.26 | 'Tis fond to wail inevitable strokes, | 'Tis fond to waile ineuitable strokes, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.154 | Which to this hour bewail the injury, | Which to this houre bewaile the Iniury, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.151.1 | And all we mourn for. | And all we waile for. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.51 | And none but women left to wail the dead. | And none but Women left to wayle the dead. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.86 | Away with these disgraceful wailing robes! | Away with these disgracefull wayling Robes; |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.216 | And can do naught but wail her darling's loss; | And can doe naught but wayle her Darlings losse; |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.217 | Even so myself bewails good Gloucester's case | Euen so my selfe bewayles good Glosters case |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.iii.26 | Wailing our losses, whiles the foe doth rage; | Wayling our losses, whiles the Foe doth Rage, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.1 | Great lords, wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, | Great Lords, wise men ne'r sit and waile their losse, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.255 | Thou scarlet sin, robbed this bewailing land | (Thou Scarlet sinne) robb'd this bewailing Land |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.17 | To vail his eyes amiss, being a king. | To waile his eyes amisse being a king; |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.175 | While we bewail our valiant son's decease. | While we bewaile our valiant sonnes decease. |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.70 | Tom will make him weep and wail; | Tom will make him weepe and waile, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.744 | From what it purposed; since to wail friends lost | From what it purpos'd: since to waile friends lost, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.121 | Whose loves I may not drop, but wail his fall | Whose loues I may not drop, but wayle his fall, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.8.2 | What I believe, I'll wail; | What I beleeue, Ile waile; |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.55 | Like tears that did their own disgrace bewail. | Like teares that did their owne disgrace bewaile. |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.22 | Find shapes of grief more than himself to wail, | Finde shapes of greefe, more then himselfe to waile, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.178 | My lord, wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes, | My Lord, wise men ne're waile their present woes, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.179 | But presently prevent the ways to wail. | But presently preuent the wayes to waile: |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.300 | Me cause to wail, but teachest me the way | Me cause to wayle, but teachest me the way |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.203 | Long mayst thou live to wail thy children's death | Long may'st thou liue, to wayle thy Childrens death, |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.11 | It were lost sorrow to wail one that's lost. | It were lost sorrow to waile one that's lost. |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.34 | Ah, who shall hinder me to wail and weep, | Ah! who shall hinder me to waile and weepe? |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.102 | To wail the dimming of our shining star; | To waile the dimming of our shining Starre: |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.103 | But none can help our harms by wailing them. | But none can helpe our harmes by wayling them. |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.60 | Misconstrue us in him and wail his death. | Misconster vs in him, and wayle his death. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.99 | For joyful mother, one that wails the name; | For ioyfull Mother, one that wailes the name: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.392 | Ungoverned youth, to wail it in their age; | Vngouern'd youth, to waile it with their age: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.394 | Old barren plants, to wail it with their age. | Old barren Plants, to waile it with their Age. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.128 | Weeping and wailing over Tybalt's corse. | Weeping and wailing ouer Tybalts Coarse, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.31 | Death, that hath ta'en her hence to make me wail, | Death that hath tane her hence to make me waile, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.289 | That wails her absence? | That wailes her absence? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iii.6 | mother weeping, my father wailing, my sister crying, | Mother weeping: my Father wayling: my Sister crying: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.69 | By wailful sonnets, whose composed rhymes | By walefull Sonnets, whose composed Rimes |