| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.94 | Do their gay vestments his affections bait? | Doe their gay vestments his affections baite? |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.i.33.1 | With cautelous baits and practice. | With cautelous baits and practice. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.ii.43.2 | Why stay we to be baited | Why stay we to be baited |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.58.1 | But worn a bait for ladies. | But worne a Baite for Ladies. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.63 | Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth, | Your bait of falshood, takes this Cape of truth; |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.137 | A sword unbated, and, in a pass of practice, | A Sword vnbaited, and in a passe of practice, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.319 | the young dace be a bait for the old pike, I see no | the young Dace be a Bayt for the old Pike, I see no |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.148 | Are these thy bears? We'll bait thy bears to death, | Are these thy Beares? Wee'l bate thy Bears to death, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.150 | If thou darest bring them to the baiting-place. | If thou dar'st bring them to the bayting place. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iv.80 | And here ye lie baiting of bombards, when | And heere ye lye baiting of Bombards, when |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.28.2 | Brutus, bait not me; | Brutus, baite not me, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.629 | baited! | baited. |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.68 | And to be baited with the rabble's curse. | And to be baited with the Rabbles curse. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.181 | With saints dost bait thy hook. Most dangerous | With Saints dost bait thy hooke: most dangerous |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.101 | But fish not with this melancholy bait | But fish not with this melancholly baite |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.48 | To bait fish withal. If it will feed nothing else, | To baite fish withall, if it will feede nothing else, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.72 | And bid the main flood bate his usual height, | And bid the maine flood baite his vsuall height, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.89 | his suit, and lead him on with a fine-baited delay till he | his Suit, and lead him on with a fine baited delay, till hee |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.197 | To bait me with this foul derision? | To baite me, with this foule derision? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.110 | Bait the hook well; | Baite the hooke well, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.28 | And greedily devour the treacherous bait; | And greedily deuoure the treacherous baite: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.33 | Of the false sweet bait that we lay for it. | Of the false sweete baite that we lay for it: |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.237 | Whilst that my wretchedness doth bait myself, | Whil'st that my wretchednesse doth bait my selfe, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.108 | To be so baited, scorned, and stormed at; | To be so baited, scorn'd, and stormed at, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.chorus.8 | And she steal love's sweet bait from fearful hooks. | And she steale Loues sweet bait from fearefull hookes: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.182 | That bate and beat and will not be obedient. | That baite, and beate, and will not be obedient: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.91 | Than baits to fish, or honey-stalks to sheep, | Then baites to fish, or honystalkes to sheepe, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.92 | When as the one is wounded with the bait, | When as the one is wounded with the baite, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.viii.20 | Pleased with this dainty bait, thus goes to bed. | Pleas'd with this dainty bed; thus goes to bed. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.90 | fencing, dancing, and bear-baiting. O, had I but followed | fencing, dancing, and beare-bayting: O had I but followed |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.8 | out o' favour with my lady about a bear-baiting here. | out o'fauour with my Lady, about a Beare-baiting heere. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.116 | And baited it with all th' unmuzzled thoughts | And baited it with all th'vnmuzled thoughts |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.92 | And now baits me! This brat is none of mine: | And now bayts me: This Brat is none of mine, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.99 | wakes, fairs, and bear-baitings. | Wakes, Faires, and Beare-baitings. |