| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.5 | Quake in the present winter's state, and wish | Quake in the present winters state, and wish |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.399 | Would quake to look on. Soft, now to my mother. | Would quake to looke on. Soft now, to my Mother: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.156 | Whose bloody deeds shall make all Europe quake. | Whose bloody deeds shall make all Europe quake. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.viii.16 | Henry the Fifth, that made all France to quake, | Henry the fift, that made all France to quake, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.77 | Or airy fowl make men in arms to quake, | Or airie foule make men in armes to quake, |
| King John | KJ III.i.18 | But they will quake and tremble all this day. | But they will quake and tremble all this day. |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.77 | O, I do fear thee, Claudio, and I quake | Oh, I do feare thee Claudio, and I quake, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.154 | Lysander, look how I do quake with fear! | Lysander looke, how I do quake with feare: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.217 | May now, perchance, both quake and tremble here, | May now perchance, both quake and tremble heere, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.251 | Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly. | Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly. |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.14 | Shook as the earth did quake. | Shooke as the earth did quake: |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.161 | Yet that, by you deposed, you quake like rebels? | Yet that by you depos'd, you quake like Rebells. |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.1 | Come, cousin, canst thou quake and change thy colour, | Come Cousin, / Canst thou quake, and change thy colour, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.40 | Revenge, which makes the foul offender quake. | Reuenge, which makes the foule offenders quake. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.198 | Wretches so quake: they kneel, they kiss the earth; | Wretches so quake: they kneele, they kisse the Earth; |