| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.ii.63 | Not much employment for you. You understand | Not much imployement for you, you vnderstand |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.112 | To lose so bad employment, in the which | To loose so bad employment, in the which |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.69 | 'Tis e'en so. The hand of little employment | 'Tis ee'n so; the hand of little Imployment |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.57 | Why, man, they did make love to this employment. | Why man, they did make loue to this imployment |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.73 | not wars? Is there not employment? Doth not the King | not wars? Is there not imployment? Doth not the K. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.127 | employment in the King's affairs. | employment in the Kings Affaires. |
| Henry V | H5 I.chorus.8 | Crouch for employment. But pardon, gentles all, | Crouch for employment. But pardon, Gentles all: |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.48 | The Cardinal instantly will find employment, | The Cardnall instantly will finde imployment, |
| King John | KJ I.i.198 | At your employment; at your service, sir.’ | At your employment, at your seruice sir: |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.127 | On whose employment I was sent to you. | On whose imployment I was sent to you, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.33 | Does not become a sword; thy great employment | Do's not become a Sword, thy great imployment |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.35 | Proud of employment, willingly I go. | Proud of imployment, willingly I goe. Exit. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.134 | unto: Your ladyship's, in all desired employment, | vnto. Your Ladiships in all desired imployment, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.127 | made a Jack-a-Lent when 'tis upon ill employment. | made a Iacke-a-Lent, when 'tis vpon ill imployment. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.248 | conference with this harpy. You have no employment | conference, with this Harpy: you haue no employment |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.32 | In dear employment. Therefore hence, be gone. | In deare employment, therefore hence be gone: |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.124 | Juno and Ceres whisper, and send Iris on employment | Iuno and Ceres whisper, and send Iris on employment. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.263 | At duty, more than I could frame employment; | At duty more then I could frame employment; |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.81 | What employment have | What employment haue |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.183 | good capacity and breeding; his employment between | good capacity, and breeding: his employment betweene |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.158 | And fit for great employment, worthy lord. | And fit for great employment (worthy Lord.) |