| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.ii.43 | And bowed his eminent top to their low ranks, | And bow'd his eminent top to their low rankes, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.119 | Who bowed but in my stirrup, bend like his | Who bow'd but in my Stirrop, bend like his |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.25 | He bowed his nature, never known before | He bow'd his Nature, neuer knowne before, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.242 | His uncle York – where I first bowed my knee | His Vncle Yorke, where I first bow'd my knee |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.69 | But that necessity so bowed the state | But that necessitie so bow'd the State, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.36 | 'Tis strange: a threepence bowed would hire me, | Tis strange; a threepence bow'd would hire me |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.85 | Then rose again, and bowed her to the people; | Then rose againe, and bow'd her to the people: |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.42 | And bowed like bondmen, kissing Caesar's feet; | And bow'd like Bondmen, kissing Casars feete; |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.108 | Those thoughts to me were oaks, to thee like osiers bowed. | Those thoughts to mee were Okes, to thee like Osiers bowed. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.89 | Whose heavy hand hath bowed you to the grave, | whose heauie hand / Hath bow'd you to the Graue, |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.83 | sapling, and must be bowed as I would have you. | sapling, and must be bowed as I would haue you. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.156 | With gentle breath, calm look, knees humbly bowed – | With gentle breath, calme looke, knees humbly bow'd |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.150 | And bowed her hand to teach her fingering, | And bow'd her hand to teach her fingering, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.122 | To th' shore, that o'er his wave-worn basis bowed, | To th' shore; that ore his waue-worne basis bowed |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.23 | My cabin where I lay; thrice bowed before me, | My Cabine where I lay: thrice bow'd before me, |