| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.vii.9 | We'll beat 'em into bench-holes. I have yet | Wee'l beat'em into Bench-holes, I haue yet |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.77 | giber for the table than a necessary bencher in the | gyber for the Table, then a necessary Bencher in the |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.69.1 | My words disbenched you not. | my words dis-bench'd you not? |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.106 | His popular ‘ shall,’ against a graver bench | His popular Shall, against a grauer Bench |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.166 | To th' greater bench? In a rebellion, | To'th' greater Bench, in a Rebellion: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.4 | upon benches after noon, that thou hast forgotten to | vpon Benches in the afternoone, that thou hast forgotten to |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.86 | To pluck down justice from your awful bench? | To plucke downe Iustice from your awefull Bench? |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.259 | Pluck down benches. | Plucke downe Benches. |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.38 | Bench by his side. (To Kent) You are o'the commission; | |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.87 | Let us go sit here upon the church-bench till two, and | let vs go sit here vpon the Church bench till two, and |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.34 | new form that they cannot sit at ease on the old bench? | new form, that they cannot sit at ease on the old bench. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.i.5 | Pluck the grave wrinkled Senate from the bench, | Plucke the graue wrinkled Senate from the Bench, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.38 | With senators on the bench. This is it | With Senators on the Bench: This is it |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.144 | bench, but he'll speak with you. | bench, but hee'l speake with you. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.314 | Have benched and reared to worship; who mayst see | Haue Bench'd, and rear'd to Worship, who may'st see |