| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.71 | My surname, Coriolanus. The painful service, | My Surname Coriolanus. The painfull Seruice, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.111 | With rainy marching in the painful field. | With raynie Marching in the painefull field. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.79 | My painful voyage on the boist'rous sea | My paynefull voyage on the boystrous sea, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.44 | And painful travail of the Queen herself, | And painefull trauell of the Queene her selfe: |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.230 | The painful traffic of my tender youth, | The painfull traffike of my tender youth |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.237 | An intercession of our painful arms. | an intercession of our painfull armes, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.23 | Till painful study shall outwear three years, | Till painefull studie shall out-weare three yeares, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.36 | I think thou dost, and indeed with most painful | I thinke thou do'st: and indeed with most painfull |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.243 | you take pains to thank me; if it had been painful, I | you take paines to thanke me, if it had been painefull, I |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.III.15 | By many a dern and painful perch | By many a dearne and painefull pearch |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.148 | To painful labour both by sea and land, | To painfull labour, both by sea and land: |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.1 | There be some sports are painful, and their labour | There be some Sports are painfull; & their labor |