| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.ii.26 | First tried our soldiership. He did look far | First tride our souldiership: he did looke farre |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.191 | And tried his inclination; from him plucked | And try'd his Inclination: from him pluckt |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.62 | Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, | The friends thou hast, and their adoption tride, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.116 | Let his dissension first be tried by fight, | Let this dissention first be tried by fight, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iii.53 | Left I the court to see this quarrel tried. | Left I the Court, to see this Quarrell try'de. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.123 | Disdainful to be tried by't; 'tis not well. | Disdainfull to be tride by't; tis not well. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.35 | Were tried by every tongue, every eye saw 'em, | Were tri'de by eu'ry tongue, eu'ry eye saw 'em, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.i.28 | But he's a tried and valiant soldier. | But hee's a tried, and valiant Souldier. |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.212 | That we have tried the utmost of our friends, | That we haue tride the vtmost of our Friends: |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.172 | All shifts were tried, both for defence and hurt; | All shifts were tried both for defence and hurt, |
| King John | KJ III.i.100 | Resembling majesty, which, being touched and tried, | Resembling Maiesty, which being touch'd and tride, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vii.53 | Being ten times undervalued to tried gold? | Being ten times vndervalued to tride gold; |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.63 | The fire seven times tried this; | The fier seauen times tried this, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.64 | Seven times tried that judgement is | Seauen times tried that iudement is, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.36 | it in rhyme, I have tried; I can find out no rhyme to | it rime, I haue tried, I can finde out no rime to |
| Pericles | Per II.ii.37 | Holding out gold that's by the touchstone tried. | Holding out Gold, that's by the Touch-stone tride: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.29 | For he hath still been tried a holy man. | For he hath still beene tried a holy man. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iii.2 | He might have tried Lord Lucius or Lucullus. | He might haue tried Lord Lucius, or Lucullus, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.iii.21 | Not being tried and tutored in the world. | Not being tryed, and tutord in the world: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.22 | That their crowns' titles tried. Alas, alas, | That their crownes titles tride: Alas, alas |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.33 | The title of a kingdom may be tried | The tytle of a kingdome may be tride |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.171 | You had only in your silent judgement tried it, | You had onely in your silent iudgement tride it, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.2 | Even pushes 'gainst our heart: the party tried | Euen pushes 'gainst our heart. The partie try'd, |