| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.i.21 | Nor by a hired knife; but that self hand | Nor by a hyred Knife, but that selfe-hand |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.155 | Than love that's hired! What, goest thou back? Thou shalt | Then loue that's hyr'd? What goest thou backe, yu shalt |
| As You Like It | AYL I.i.12 | and to that end riders dearly hired; but I, his brother, | and to that end Riders deerely hir'd: but I (his brother) |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.122 | With tomboys hired with that self exhibition | With Tomboyes hyr'd, with that selfe exhibition |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.98 | Have hired me to undermine the Duchess, | Haue hyred me to vnder-mine the Duchesse, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.28 | Are hired to bear their staves. Either thou, Macbeth, | Are hyr'd to beare their Staues; either thou Macbeth, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.287.1 | Hired to it by your brother. | Hired to it by your brother. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.231 | If you are hired for meed, go back again, | If you are hyr'd for meed, go backe againe, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.293 | For here it sleeps, and does no hired harm. | For heere it sleepes, and do's no hyred harme. |