| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.49 | Beshrew his hand, I scarce could understand it. | Beshrew his hand, I scarce could vnderstand it. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.113 | And meant to wrack thee. But beshrew my jealousy. | And meant to wracke thee: but beshrew my iealousie: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iii.45.2 | Beshrew your heart, | Beshrew your heart, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iii.55 | anything and wilt not call, beshrew thy heart. (to the | any thing, and wilt not call, beshrew thy heart. |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.222 | poor and untempering effect of my visage. Now beshrew | poore and vntempering effect of my Visage. Now beshrew |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.184 | Beshrew the winners, for they played me false! | Beshrew the winners, for they play'd me false, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.150 | Beshrew me, but his passions moves me so | Beshrew me, but his passions moues me so, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.24.2 | Beshrew me, I would, | Beshrew me, I would, |
| King John | KJ V.iv.49 | We do believe thee; and beshrew my soul | We do beleeue thee, and beshrew my soule, |
| King John | KJ V.v.14 | Ah, foul, shrewd news! Beshrew thy very heart! | Ah fowle, shrew'd newes. Beshrew thy very hart: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.46 | A pox of that jest, and I beshrew all shrews. | A Pox of that iest, and I beshrew all Shrowes: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vi.52 | Beshrew me but I love her heartily! | Beshrew me but I loue her heartily. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.14 | That I had been forsworn. Beshrew your eyes! | That I had beene forsworne: Beshrow your eyes, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.60 | Now much beshrew my manners and my pride | Now much beshrew my manners and my pride, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.282 | Beshrew my heart, but I pity the man. | Beshrew my heart, but I pittie the man. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.55.2 | Marry, beshrew my hand, | Marry beshrew my hand, |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.146 | As fit the bridal. Beshrew me much, Emilia, | As fits the Bridall. Beshrew me much, Amilia, |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.127.2 | Beshrew him for't! | Beshrew him for't: |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.77 | Beshrew me, if I would do such a wrong for | Beshrew me, if I would do such a wrong / For |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.204 | Beshrew thee, cousin, which didst lead me forth | Beshrew thee Cousin, which didst lead me forth |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.51 | Beshrew your heart for sending me about | Beshrew your heart for sending me about |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.222 | As Paris hath. Beshrew my very heart, | As Paris hath, beshrow my very heart, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.228 | And from my soul too. Else beshrew them both. | And from my soule too, / Or else beshrew them both. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.ii.25 | She will beshrew me much that Romeo | Shee will beshrew me much that Romeo |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.12 | Beshrew the witch! With venomous wights she stays | Beshrew the witch! with venemous wights she stayes, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.29 | Come, come, beshrew your heart; you'll ne'er be good, | Come, come, beshrew your heart: youle nere be good, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.79 | Beshrew me, the knight's in admirable fooling. | Beshrew me, the knights in admirable fooling. |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.i.57 | Do not deny. Beshrew his soul for me! | Do not denie, beshrew his soule for mee, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.124 | Beshrew me, but you have a quick wit. | Beshrew me, but you haue a quicke wit. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.73 | Beshrew me, sir, but if he make this good, | Beshrew me sir, but if he make this good |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.212 | Beshrew mine eyes for't! Now I feel my shackles. | Beshrew mine eyes for't, now I feele my Shackles. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.iv.63 | Sister, beshrew my heart, you have a servant | Sister, beshrew my heart, you have a Servant, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.ii.30 | These dangerous, unsafe lunes i'th' King, beshrew them! | These dangerous, vnsafe Lunes i'th' King, beshrew them: |