| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.46 | By what did here befall me. Your wife and brother | By what did heere befall me. Your Wife and Brother |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.124 | What hath befallen of them and thee till now. | What haue befalne of them and they till now. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.208 | Today did dine together. So befall my soul | To day did dine together: so befall my soule, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.9 | Madam, all joy befall your grace, and you! | Madam, all ioy befall your Grace, and you. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iii.11.2 | How now? What hath befallen? | How now? What hath befalne? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.177 | The stiff-borne action. What hath then befallen, | The stiffe-borne Action: What hath then befalne? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.vi.10 | More blessed hap did ne'er befall our state. | More blessed hap did ne're befall our State. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.115 | And peace, no war, befall thy parting soul! | And Peace, no Warre, befall thy parting Soule. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.33 | What shall befall the Duke of Somerset? | What shall befall the Duke of Somerset? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.65 | What shall befall the Duke of Somerset? | What shall betide the Duke of Somerset? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.402 | O, let me stay, befall what may befall! | Oh let me stay, befall what may befall. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.iii.33 | And more such days as these to us befall! | And more such dayes as these, to vs befall. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.106 | I come to tell you things sith then befallen. | I come to tell you things sith then befalne. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.76 | What danger or what sorrow can befall thee, | What danger, or what sorrow can befall thee, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iv.3 | What late misfortune is befallen King Edward? | What late misfortune is befalne King Edward? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vi.95 | What may befall him, to his harm and ours. | What may befall him, to his harme and ours. |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.96 | Let's reason with the worst that may befall. | Let's reason with the worst that may befall. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.23 | Befall my sovereign all my sovereign's wish! | Befall my soueraigne, all my soueraignes wish, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.114.2 | Berowne and Rosaline converse apart | [Q1] BEROWNE Did not I dance with you in Brabant once? KATHER. Did not I dance with you in Brabant once? BEROWNE I know you did. KATH. How needles was it then to aske the question? BEROWNE You must not be so quicke. KATH. Tis long of you that spur me with such questions. BEROWNE Your wit's too hot, it speedes too fast, twill tire. KATH. Not till it leaue the rider in the mire. BEROWNE What time a day? KATH. The houre that fooles should aske. BEROWNE Now faire befall your maske. KATH. Faire fall the face it couers. BEROWNE And send you manie louers. KATH. Amen, so you be none. BEROWNE Nay then will I be gone. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.859 | A twelvemonth? Well, befall what will befall, | A tweluemonth? Well: befall what will befall, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.i.58 | What doth befall you here. So fare you well. | What doth befall you here. So fare you well: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.63 | The worst that may befall me in this case | The worst that may befall me in this case, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.121 | That befall preposterously. | That befall preposterously. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.153 | In this same interlude it doth befall | In this same Interlude, it doth befall, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.292 | could heartily wish this had not so befallen: but since | could hartily wish this had not befalne: but since |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.304 | Sir, you shall understand what hath befallen, | Sir, / You shall vnderstand what hath befalne, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.20 | Many years of happy days befall | Many yeares of happy dayes befall |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.129 | Whom fair befall in heaven 'mongst happy souls – | (Whom faire befall in heauen 'mongst happy soules) |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.281 | Now fair befall thee and thy noble house! | Now faire befall thee, and thy Noble house: |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.16 | That had befallen us. As we paced along | That had befalne vs. As we pac'd along |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.46 | Now fair befall you! He deserved his death, | Now faire befall you, he deseru'd his death, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.110 | Now fair befall thee, good Petruchio! | Now faire befall thee good Petruchio; |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.57 | If thou wilt not, befall what may befall, | If thou wilt not, befall what may befall, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.3 | And ours with thine, befall what fortune will. | And ours with thine befall, what Fortune will. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iii.8 | But jealousy what might befall your travel, | But iealousie, what might befall your rrauell, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.328 | Than what befalls myself. You stand amazed; | Then what befals my selfe: you stand amaz'd, |