| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.126 | By revolution lowering, does become | By reuolution lowring, does become |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.132 | From twelve to seventy, and pouring war | From twelue, to seuentie: and powring Warre |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vii.51.2 | He wrings at some distress. | He wrings at some distresse. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.35 | Leave wringing of your hands. Peace, sit you down, | Leaue wringing of your hands, peace, sit you downe, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.36 | And let me wring your heart. For so I shall, | And let me wring your heart, for so I shall |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.80.1 | Into a towering passion. | Into a Towring passion. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.47 | It rained down fortune showering on your head, | It rain'd downe Fortune showring on your head, |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.34 | With such a heady currance scouring faults; | With such a heady currance scowring faults: |
| Henry V | H5 III.iii.14 | Your fresh fair virgins, and your flowering infants. | Your fresh faire Virgins, and your flowring Infants. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.229 | But his own wringing! What infinite heart's ease | but his owne wringing. / What infinite hearts-ease |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.56 | And hath detained me all my flowering youth | And hath detayn'd me all my flowring Youth, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.224 | Weeps over them, and wrings his hapless hands, | Weepes ouer them, and wrings his haplesse hands, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.189 | to me in the garret one night as we were scouring my | to me in the Garret one Night, as wee were scowring my |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.206 | What lowering star now envies thy estate, | What lowring Starre now enuies thy estate? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.228 | Or as the snake rolled in a flowering bank, | Or as the Snake, roll'd in a flowring Banke, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.34 | Rear up his body; wring him by the nose. | Rere vp his Body, wring him by the Nose. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.188 | To wring the widow from her customed right, | To wring the Widdow from her custom'd right, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.153 | And wring the awful sceptre from his fist, | And wring the awefull Scepter from his Fist, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.26 | Dangers, doubts, wringing of the conscience, | Dangers, doubts, wringing of the Conscience, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.73 | And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring | And drop my blood for Drachmaes, then to wring |
| King Edward III | E3 III.ii.47 | Sweet flow'ring peace, the root of happy life, | Sweete flowring peace the roote of happie life, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iv.12 | A falcon towering in her pride of place | A Faulcon towring in her pride of place, |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.32 | Or wring redress from you. Hear me, O hear me, hear. | Or wring redresse from you: / Heare me: oh heare me, heere. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.ii.4 | or his cook, or his laundry, his washer, and his wringer. | or his Cooke; or his Laundry; his Washer, and his Ringer. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.94 | his house; and I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour, dress | his house; and I wash, ring, brew, bake, scowre, dresse |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.28 | To those that wring under the load of sorrow, | To those that wring vnder the load of sorrow: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.280 | Your overkindness doth wring tears from me. | Your ouerkindnesse doth wring teares from me, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.418 | And then, sir, would he gripe and wring my hand, | And then (Sir) would he gripe, and wring my hand: |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.187 | This lowering tempest of your home-bred hate, | This lowring tempest of your home-bred hate, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.172 | Which God defend that I should wring from him! | Which God defend that I should wring from him. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.6 | Driving back shadows over louring hills. | Driuing backe shadowes ouer lowring hils. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.31 | Enter Nurse, wringing her hands, with the ladder of cords | Enter Nurse with cords. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.36 | Ay me! what news? Why dost thou wring thy hands? | Ay me, what newes? / Why dost thou wring thy hands. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.73 | O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face! | O Serpent heart, hid with a flowring face. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.130 | Evermore showering? In one little body | Euermore showring in one little body? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.18 | He wrings him by the ears | He rings him by the eares |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.135.1 | That wrings mine eyes to't. | That wrings mine eyes too't. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iii.7 | our maid howling, our cat wringing her hands, and all | our Maid howling: our Catte wringing her hands, and all |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.227 | Wringing her hands, whose whiteness so became them | Wringing her hands, whose whitenes so became them, |