| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.36 | And let me wring your heart. For so I shall, | And let me wring your heart, for so I shall |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.34 | Rear up his body; wring him by the nose. | Rere vp his Body, wring him by the Nose. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.188 | To wring the widow from her customed right, | To wring the Widdow from her custom'd right, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.153 | And wring the awful sceptre from his fist, | And wring the awefull Scepter from his Fist, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.73 | And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring | And drop my blood for Drachmaes, then to wring |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.32 | Or wring redress from you. Hear me, O hear me, hear. | Or wring redresse from you: / Heare me: oh heare me, heere. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.94 | his house; and I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour, dress | his house; and I wash, ring, brew, bake, scowre, dresse |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.28 | To those that wring under the load of sorrow, | To those that wring vnder the load of sorrow: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.280 | Your overkindness doth wring tears from me. | Your ouerkindnesse doth wring teares from me, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.418 | And then, sir, would he gripe and wring my hand, | And then (Sir) would he gripe, and wring my hand: |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.172 | Which God defend that I should wring from him! | Which God defend that I should wring from him. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.36 | Ay me! what news? Why dost thou wring thy hands? | Ay me, what newes? / Why dost thou wring thy hands. |