| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.51 | The miserable change now at my end | The miserable change now at my end, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.13 | A motley fool – a miserable world! – | A motley Foole (a miserable world:) |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.133 | From miserable slumber I awaked. | From miserable slumber I awaked. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.6 | As my two brothers, happy: but most miserable | As my two Brothers, happy: but most miserable |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.178 | Poor miserable wretches, to your death; | (Poore miserable wretches) to your death: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.201 | For what's more miserable than discontent? | For what's more miserable then Discontent? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.10 | O miserable age! Virtue is not regarded in | O miserable Age: Vertue is not regarded in |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.159 | O gross and miserable ignorance! | O grosse and miserable ignorance. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.85 | I should lament thy miserable state. | I should lament thy miserable state. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.88 | O, pity, God, this miserable age! | O pitty God, this miserable Age! |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.151 | O, miserable thought! And more unlikely | Oh miserable Thought! and more vnlikely, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.47 | To send the old and miserable King | To send the old and miserable King |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.103 | No, not to live! O nation miserable, | No not to liue. O Natiõ miserable! |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.2 | The miserable have no other medicine | The miserable haue no other medicine |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.234 | But miserable most, to love unloved: | (But miserable most, to loue vnlou'd) |
| Othello | Oth II.i.137 | laugh i'th' alehouse. What miserable praise hast thou for | laugh i'th'Alehouse. What miserable praise hast thou for |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.27 | More miserable by the life of him | More miserable by the death of him, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.257 | What 'twere to lose it and be miserable! | What 'twere to lose it, and be miserable. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.2 | O, I have passed a miserable night, | O, I haue past a miserable night, |
| Richard III | R3 III.iv.103 | O bloody Richard! Miserable England! | O bloody Richard: miserable England, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.75 | More miserable by the life of thee | More miserable, by the Life of thee, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.145 | Take heed, take heed, for such die miserable. | Take heed, take heed, for such die miserable. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.44 | Most miserable hour that e'er time saw | Most miserable houre, that ere time saw |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.33 | hanged, our case is miserable. | hang'd, our case is miserable. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.249 | Thou shouldst desire to die, being miserable. | Thou should'st desire to dye, being miserable. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.250 | Not by his breath that is more miserable. | Not by his breath, that is more miserable. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.459 | no time so miserable but a man may be true. | no time so miserable, but a man may be true. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.108 | And leave me to this miserable death. | And leaue me to this miserable death. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.28 | How Troy was burnt and he made miserable? | How Troy was burnt, and he made miserable? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.18 | Ah, Rome! Well, well, I made thee miserable | Ah Rome! Well, well, I made thee miserable, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.66 | Have miserable, mad, mistaking eyes. | Haue miserable mad mistaking eyes: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.i.34 | Or else I often had been miserable. | Or else I often had beene often miserable. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.28 | O miserable, unhappy that I am! | O miserable, vnhappy that I am. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.142 | This miserable prince, that cuts away | This miserable Prince, that cuts away |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.86 | O miserable end of our alliance! | O miserable end of our alliance |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.351 | O miserable lady! But, for me, | O miserable Lady. But for me, |