| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.268 | Than the severity of the public power, | Then the seuerity of the publike Power, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.46 | Whereon to practise your severity. | Whereon to practise your seueritie. |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.25 | Albeit severity lay dead in us. | Albeit seuerity lay dead in vs, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.95 | It is too general a vice, and severity must cure it. | It is too general a vice, and seueritie must cure it. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.219 | For beauty, starved with her severity, | For beauty steru'd with her seuerity, |