| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.i.56.1 | To th' way she's forced to. | To'th'way shee's forc'd too. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.213.1 | And forced to drink their vapour. | And forc'd to drinke their vapour. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.75 | Forced me to seek delays for them and me. | Forst me to seeke delayes for them and me, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.19 | Held me in chase, that I was forced to wheel | Held me in chace, that I was forc'd to wheele |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.106 | I was forced to scold. Your judgements, my grave Lords, | I was forc'd to scoul'd. Your iudgments my graue Lords |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.79 | Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, | Nor windy suspiration of forc'd breath, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.377 | Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause, | Of death's put on by cunning, and forc'd cause, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.129 | 'Tis like the forced gait of a shuffling nag. | 'Tis like the forc't gate of a shuffling Nagge. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.145 | But he hath forced us to compel this offer, | But hee hath forc'd vs to compell this Offer, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.290 | Than from it issued forced drops of blood. | Then from it issued forced drops of blood. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vi.28 | The pretty and sweet manner of it forced | The prettie and sweet manner of it forc'd |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.v.62 | For what is wedlock forced but a hell, | For what is wedlocke forced? but a Hell, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.230 | Enforced thee! Art thou king, and wilt be forced? | Enforc't thee? Art thou King, and wilt be forc't? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.6 | Forced by the tide to combat with the wind; | Forc'd by the Tide, to combat with the Winde: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.8 | Forced to retire by fury of the wind. | Forc'd to retyre by furie of the Winde. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.26 | And forced to live in Scotland a forlorn; | And forc'd to liue in Scotland a Forlorne; |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.184 | The region of my breast; which forced such way | The region of my Breast, which forc'd such way, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.429 | In all my miseries, but thou hast forced me, | In all my Miseries: But thou hast forc'd me |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.203 | Do stand but in a forced affection; | Do stand but in a forc'd affection: |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.9 | Or forced by rough insulting barbarism; | Or forst by rough insulting barbarisme: |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.98 | His little kingdom of a forced grave. | His little kingdome of a forced graue. |
| King Lear | KL V.i.23 | Forced to cry out. Where I could not be honest, | Forc'd to cry out. |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.242 | severe that he hath forced me to tell him he is indeed | seuere, that he hath forc'd me to tell him, hee is indeede |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.222 | Which forced marriage would have brought upon her. | Which forced marriage would haue brought vpon her. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.64 | That I am forced to lay my reverence by, | That I am forc'd to lay my reuerence by, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.111 | Did you by indirect and forced courses | Did you, by indirect, and forced courses |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.116 | So shall I clothe me in a forced content, | So shall I cloath me in a forc'd content, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.8 | No shame but mine. I must forsooth be forced | No shame but mine, I must forsooth be forst |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.201 | Before I were forced out! | before I were forc'd out: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.53 | Forced in the ruthless, vast, and gloomy woods? | Forc'd in the ruthlesse, vast, and gloomy woods? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.71 | Cursed be that heart that forced us to this shift! | Curst be that hart that forc'st vs to that shift: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.176 | Inhuman traitors, you constrained and forced. | Iuhumaine Traytors, you constrain'd and for'st. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.55 | forced with wit, turn him to? To an ass were nothing; | forced with wit, turne him too: to an Asse were nothing; |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.22 | That would have forced your honour and your love. | That would haue forc'd your honour, and your loue, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.78 | Tak'st up the Princess by that forced baseness | Tak'st vp the Princesse, by that forced basenesse |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.41 | With these forced thoughts, I prithee, darken not | With these forc'd thoughts, I prethee darken not |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.91 | 'Tis not a visitation framed, but forced | 'Tis not a Visitation fram'd, but forc'd |