| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.35.1 | Which I can scarcely bear. | Which I can scarsely beare. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vi.26 | But fear the sword like me, he'll scarcely look on't. | But feare the Sword like me, hee'l scarsely looke on't. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.29 | Who, impotent and bedrid, scarcely hears | Who Impotent and Bedrid, scarsely heares |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.109 | scarcely lie in this box, and must th' inheritor himself | hardly lye in this Boxe; and must the Inheritor himselfe |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.19 | West of this forest, scarcely off a mile, | West of this Forrest, scarcely off a mile, |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.104 | As black and white, my eye will scarcely see it. | As black and white, my eye will scarsely see it. |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.161 | the mischief of your person it would scarcely allay. | the mischiefe of your person, it would scarsely alay. |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.265 | Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But for true need, – | Which scarcely keepes thee warme, but for true need: |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.101 | We scarcely think our miseries our foes. | |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.146 | Which, for they yet glance by and scarcely bruise, | Which for they yet glance by, and scarely bruise, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.v.34 | Who, almost dead for breath, had scarcely more | Who almost dead for breath, had scarcely more |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.127 | Scarcely have coveted what was mine own, | Scarsely haue coueted what was mine owne. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.ii.37 | will scarcely believe this without trial; offer them | will scarcely beleeue this without triall: offer them |
| Pericles | Per III.i.60 | Must cast thee, scarcely coffined, in the ooze, | Must cast thee scarcly Coffind, in oare, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.21 | To your good prayers will scarcely say amen. | To your good prayer, will scarsely say, Amen. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.178 | You scarcely have the hearts to tell me so, | You scarsely haue the hearts to tell me so, |
| Richard III | R3 II.iii.2 | I promise you, I scarcely know myself. | Cit. I promise you, I scarsely know my selfe: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.v.23 | And that, methinks, is not so well; nor scarcely | And that (me thinkes) is not so well; nor scarcely |