| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.78 | And little recks to find the way to heaven | And little wreakes to finde the way to heauen |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.92 | You grave but reckless Senators, have you thus | You graue, but wreaklesse Senators, haue you thus |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.88 | A heart of wreak in thee, that wilt revenge | A heart of wreake in thee, that wilt reuenge |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.7 | So flies the reckless shepherd from the wolf; | So flies the wreaklesse shepherd from ye Wolfe: |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.140 | but as a drunken sleep; careless, reckless, and | but as a drunken sleepe, carelesse, wreaklesse, and |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.101 | To wreak the love I bore my cousin | To wreake the Loue I bore my Cozin, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.230 | Of wreakful heaven, whose bare unhoused trunks, | Of wrekefull Heauen, whose bare vnhoused Trunkes, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.34 | Take wreak on Rome for this ingratitude, | Take wreake on Rome for this ingratitude, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.52 | To send down Justice for to wreak our wrongs. | To send downe Iustice for to wreake our wongs: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.11 | Shall we be thus afflicted in his wreaks, | Shall we be thus afflicted in his wreakes, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.32 | By working wreakful vengeance on thy foes. | By working wreakefull vengeance on my Foes: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.vi.26 | I reck not though thou end my life today. | I wreake not, though thou end my life to day. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iii.40 | Recking as little what betideth me | Wreaking as little what betideth me, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.ii.7 | I reck not if the wolves would jaw me, so | I wreake not if the wolves would jaw me, so |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.84 | A wreath of bulrush rounded; about her stuck | A wreake of bull-rush rounded; about her stucke |