| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| King John | KJ II.i.223 | Who painfully, with much expedient march, | Who painefully with much expedient march |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.74 | As painfully to pore upon a book | As painefully to poare vpon a Booke, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.278 | Imprisoned, thou didst painfully remain | Imprison'd, thou didst painefully remaine |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.ii.1 | Thou hast painfully discovered. Are his files | Thou hast painfully discouer'd: are his Files |