| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.i.39 | On pain of punishment, the world to weet | One paine of punishment, the world to weete |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.254 | biting of it, what pain she felt; truly, she makes a very | byting of it, what paine she felt: Truely, she makes averie |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.312 | feels no pain, the one lacking the burden of lean and | feeles no paine: the one lacking the burthen of leane and |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.36 | But were we burdened with like weight of pain, | But were we burdned with like waight of paine, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.65 | If you went in pain, master, this knave would go sore. | If you went in paine Master, this knaue wold goe sore. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.50 | A pain that only seems to seek out danger | A paine that onely seemes to seeke out danger |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vii.53.1 | What pain it cost, what danger! Gods! | What paine it cost, what danger: Gods! |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.290 | Their pleasures here are past, so is their pain. | Their pleasures here are past, so are their paine. |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.342 | And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, | And in this harsh world draw thy breath in paine, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.222 | Which I with more than with a common pain | Which I, with more, then with a Common paine, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.66 | Till then I banish thee, on pain of death, | Till then, I banish thee, on paine of death, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iii.78 | any sword, weapon, or dagger henceforward, upon pain | any Sword, Weapon, or Dagger hence-forward, vpon paine |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.47 | Henceforth we banish thee on pain of death. | Henceforth we banish thee on paine of death. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.138 | Whom I with pain have wooed and won thereto; | Whom I with paine haue wooed and wonne thereto: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.377 | I know no pain they can inflict upon him | I know, no paine they can inflict vpon him, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.257 | In pain of your dislike, or pain of death, | In paine of your dislike, or paine of death; |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.288 | But three days longer, on the pain of death. | But three dayes longer, on the paine of death. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.iii.4 | So thou wilt let me live, and feel no pain. | So thou wilt let me liue, and feele no paine. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.221 | Or felt that pain which I did for him once, | Or felt that paine which I did for him once, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.128 | Unless the Lady Bona quit his pain. | Vnlesse the Lady Bona quit his paine. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.49 | Thy mother felt more than a mother's pain, | Thy Mother felt more then a Mothers paine, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.72 | A worthy fellow, and hath ta'en much pain | A worthy Fellow, and hath tane much paine |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.8 | Out of the pain you suffered, gave no ear to't. | Out of the paine you suffer'd, gaue no eare too't. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.47 | On pain of death, sent forth to succour him. | On paine of death sent forth to succour him: |
| King Lear | KL III.i.53 | That when we have found the King – in which your pain | That when we haue found the King, in which your pain |
| King Lear | KL III.iii.4 | charged me on pain of perpetual displeasure neither to | charg'd me on paine of perpetuall displeasure, neither to |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.106 | How light and portable my pain seems now, | |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.183 | That we the pain of death would hourly die | That we the paine of death would hourely dye, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.73 | Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain: | Which with paine purchas'd, doth inherit paine, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.122 | Let's see the penalty – on pain of losing her | Let's see the penaltie. On paine of loosing her |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.120 | That shall express my true love's fasting pain. | That shall expresse my true-loues fasting paine. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.170 | And, gentle Longaville, where lies thy pain? | And gentle Longauill, where lies thy paine? |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.47 | The labour we delight in physics pain. | The labour we delight in, Physicks paine: |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.86 | Accountant to the law upon that pain. | Accountant to the Law, vpon that paine. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.172 | Something too liberal. Pray thee take pain | Something too liberall, pray thee take paine |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.86 | And turn him to no pain; but if he start, | And turne him to no paine: but if he start, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.250 | But herein mean I to enrich my pain, | But heerein meane I to enrich my paine, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.80 | Extremely stretched, and conned with cruel pain, | Extreamely stretcht, and cond with cruell paine, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.281 | I have a pain upon my forehead here. | I haue a paine vpon my Forehead, heere. |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.144 | Of pain. Nay, we must think men are not gods, | Of paine. Nay, we must thinke men are not Gods, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.89 | I would not have thee linger in thy pain. | I would not haue thee linger in thy paine? |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.24 | Nature should be so conversant with pain, | Nature should be so conuersant with Paine, |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.45 | Your personal pain, but even your purse, still open, | your personall payne, / But euen your Purse still open, |
| Pericles | Per V.i.192 | Give me a gash, put me to present pain, | giue mee a gash, put me to present paine, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.42 | On pain of death, no person be so bold | On paine of death, no person be so bold, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.106 | On pain to be found false and recreant, | On paine to be found false, and recreant, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.111 | On pain to be found false and recreant, | On paine to be found false and recreant, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.140 | You, cousin Hereford, upon pain of life | You Cosin Herford, vpon paine of death, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.153 | Breathe I against thee upon pain of life. | Breath I against thee, vpon paine of life. |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.8 | For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain. | For they breath truth, that breath their words in paine. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.166 | Wert thou not banished on pain of death? | Wert thou not banished, on paine of death? |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.167 | I was; but I do find more pain in banishment | I was: but I doe find more paine in banishment, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.21 | O Lord! Methought what pain it was to drown! | O Lord, me thought what paine it was to drowne, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.303 | Of all one pain, save for a night of groans | Of all one paine, saue for a night of groanes |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.86 | On pain of torture, from those bloody hands | On paine of Torture, from those bloody hands |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.103 | Once more, on pain of death, all men depart. | Once more on paine of death, all men depart. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.ii.46 | One pain is lessened by another's anguish. | One paine is lesned by anothers anguish: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.i.12 | After his studies or his usual pain? | After his studies, or his vsuall paine? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.163 | Derive some pain from you. Plague all, | Deriue some paine from you. Plague all, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.ii.285 | Some never-heard-of torturing pain for them. | Some neuer heard-of tortering paine for them. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.30.1 | In most accepted pain. | In most accepted paine. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.i.58 | With such a hell of pain and world of charge; | With such a hell of paine, and world of charge. |