| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.100 | Worthily termed them merciless to us; | Worthily tearm'd them mercilesse to vs: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.iv.33 | Of hinds and peasants, rude and merciless: | Of Hindes and Pezants, rude and mercilesse: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.25 | The foe is merciless and will not pity, | The Foe is mercilesse, and will not pitty: |
| King John | KJ II.i.214 | And merciless proceeding by these French | And merciles proceeding, by these French. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.ii.9 | And choke their art. The merciless Macdonwald – | And choake their Art: The mercilesse Macdonwald |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.183 | And the most merciless, that e'er was heard of! | And the most mercilesse, that ere was heard of. |