| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.iii.35 | I will employ thee back again. I find thee | I will employ thee backe againe: I finde thee |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.70.1 | If you'll employ me to him. | If you'l imploy me to him. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.96 | I will endure, and I'll employ thee too. | I will endure; and Ile employ thee too: |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.104.1 | When't pleased you to employ me. | When't pleas'd you to employ me. |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.62 | T' employ you towards this Roman. Come, our queen. | T'employ you towards this Romane. / Come our Queene. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.74 | And his commission to employ those soldiers, | And his Commission to imploy those Soldiers |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.ii.24 | Imply the countenance and grace of heaven | Employ the Countenance, and Grace of Heauen, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.16 | Employ thee then, sweet virgin, for our good. | Employ thee then, sweet Virgin, for our good. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.221 | Employ me how thou wilt in proof thereof. | Inploy me how thou wilt in prose therof, |
| King John | KJ I.i.96 | Your brother did employ my father much – | Your brother did imploy my father much. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.6 | hither. I must employ him in a letter to my love. | hither: I must imploy him in a letter to my Loue. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.148 | Stay, slave. I must employ thee. | O stay slaue, I must employ thee: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.145 | Allons! We will employ thee. | Alone, we will employ thee. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.528 | We shall employ thee in a worthier place. | We shall imploy thee in a worthier place. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.viii.43 | Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts | Be merry, and imploy your chiefest thoughts |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.124 | I must employ you in some business | I must imploy you in some businesse |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.374 | Whiles I in this affair do thee employ | Whiles I in this affaire do thee imply, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.48 | Valiant Othello, we must straight employ you | Valiant Othello, we must straight employ you |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.108 | And whatsoe'er you will employ me in, | And whatsoe're you will imploy me in, |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.36 | When I have most need to employ a friend, | When I haue most need to imploy a Friend, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iii.3 | There's some great matter she'd employ me in. | Ther's some great matter she'ld employ me in. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.39 | And will employ thee in some service presently. | And will imploy thee in some seruice presently. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.373 | Without her love; for her employ them all; | Without her Loue; for her, employ them all, |