| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.24 | And ghosts did shriek and squeal about the streets. | And Ghosts did shrieke and squeale about the streets. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.71 | the Duchess and the ladies that they would shriek; and | the Dutchesse and the Ladies, that they would shrike, and |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.183 | For night-owls shriek where mounting larks should sing. | For night-Owls shrike, where moũting Larks should sing. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.98.2 | What noise? What shriek is this? | What noyse? what shreeke is this? |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.65 | You chose her; then I'd shriek, that even your ears | You chose her: then Il'd shrieke, that euen your eares |