| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.65 | With windlasses and with assays of bias, | With windlesses, and with assaies of Bias, |
| King John | KJ II.i.574 | Commodity, the bias of the world – | Commoditie, the byas of the world, |
| King John | KJ II.i.577 | Till this advantage, this vile-drawing bias, | Till this aduantage, this vile drawing byas, |
| King John | KJ II.i.581 | And this same bias, this commodity, | And this same byas, this Commoditie, |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.111 | from bias of nature: there's father against child. We | from byas of Nature, there's Father against Childe. We |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.109 | Study his bias leaves and makes his book thine eyes, | Studie his byas leaues, and makes his booke thine eyes. |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.5 | And that my fortune rubs against the bias. | And that my fortune runnes against the Byas. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.v.25 | And not unluckily against the bias. | And not vnluckily against the Bias: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.15 | Bias and thwart, not answering the aim | Bias and thwart, not answering the ayme: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.8 | Blow, villain, till thy sphered bias cheek | Blow villaine, till thy sphered Bias cheeke |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.169 | Strained purely from all hollow bias-drawing, | Strain'd purely from all hollow bias drawing: |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.257 | But nature to her bias drew in that. | But Nature to her bias drew in that. |