| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.47.1 | To rot itself with motion. | To rot it selfe with motion. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vii.15.2 | Sink Rome, and their tongues rot | Sinke Rome, and their tongues rot |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.27 | And then from hour to hour we rot, and rot, | And then from houre to houre, we rot, and rot, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.3 | Even in the spring of love thy love-springs rot? | Euen in the spring of Loue, thy Loue-springs rot? |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.130.2 | The south-fog rot him! | The South-Fog rot him. |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.161 | How long will a man lie i'th' earth ere he rot? | How long will a man lie 'ith' earth ere he rot? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.194 | As festered members rot but by degree | As festred members rot but by degree, |
| King Lear | KL V.ii.8 | No further, sir; a man may rot even here. | No further Sir, a man may rot euen heere. |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.122 | To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; | To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot, |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.180 | Ay, let her rot and perish, and be damned | I, let her rot and perish, and be damn'd |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.155 | Rot half a grain a day! He lies to th' heart. | Rot halfe a graine a day: he lyes to'th'heart, |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.49 | And if I do not may my hands rot off, | And if I do not, may my hands rot off, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.64.2 | Thy lips rot off! | Thy lips rot off. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.65 | I will not kiss thee; then the rot returns | I will not kisse thee, then the rot returnes |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.367 | I would my tongue could rot them off. | I would my tongue / Could rot them off. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.58 | I'll speak no more but ‘ Vengeance rot you all!’ | Ile speake no more: but vengeance rot you all. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.120 | Are like to rot untasted. Go and tell him | Are like to rot vntasted: goe and tell him, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.324.2 | Make that thy question, and go rot! | Make that thy question, and goe rot: |