| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.v.60 | The violence of either thee becomes, | The violence of either thee becomes, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.iii.2 | violence of action hath made you reek as a sacrifice: | Violence of Action hath made you reek as a Sacrifice: |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.145 | To offer it the show of violence, | To offer it the shew of Violence, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.171 | Nor shall you do my ear that violence | Nor shall you doe mine eare that violence, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.206 | The violence of either grief or joy | The violence of other Greefe or Ioy, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.292 | I pray you, pass with your best violence. | I pray you passe with your best violence, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.246 | They will by violence tear him from your palace | They will by violence teare him from your Pallace, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.33 | And when the King comes, offer him no violence, | And when the King comes, offer him no violence, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iv.29 | But to prevent the tyrant's violence – | But to preuent the Tyrants violence, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.246 | You ask with such a violence, the King, | You aske with such a Violence, the King |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.104 | Than when reproach with violence is borne. | Then when reproch with violence is borne, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.25 | Or by violence fell beside his horse? | Or by violence fell beside his horse. |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.128 | And blown with restless violence round about | And blowne with restlesse violence round about |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.246 | My downright violence and storm of fortunes | My downe-right violence, and storme of Fortunes, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.216 | Mark me with what violence she first loved the Moor, | Marke me with what violence she first lou'd the Moore, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.198.1 | When violence assails us. | When violence assailes vs. |
| Pericles | Per V.i.99 | You would not do me violence. | you would not do me violence. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.200 | Die in his youth by like untimely violence! | Dye in his youth, by like vntimely violence. |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.39 | To make an act of tragic violence. | To make an act of Tragicke violence. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.264 | But, as it seems, did violence on herself. | But (as it seemes) did violence on her selfe. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.128 | Prove violence, in the which three great ones suffer: | Proue violence, in the which three great ones suffer, |