| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.10 | That doth my life besiege. Farewell, young lords. | That doth my life besiege: farwell yong Lords, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.157 | So you had need, for Orleans is besieged; | So you had need, for Orleance is besieg'd, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.8 | Faintly besiege us one hour in a month. | Faintly besiege vs one houre in a moneth. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.1 | Sirrah, thou knowest how Orleans is besieged | Sirrha, thou know'st how Orleance is besieg'd, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.170 | Till Paris was besieged, famished, and lost. | Till Paris was besieg'd, famisht, and lost. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.ii.50 | Intend here to besiege you in your castle. | Intend here to besiege you in your Castle. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.ii.64 | The army of the Queen mean to besiege us. | The Armie of the Queene meane to besiege vs. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iv.35 | the women so besiege us? Bless me, what a fry of | the women so besiege vs? Blesse me, what a fry of |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.44 | I cannot blame the Scots that did besiege her, | I cannot blame the Scots that did besiege her, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.413 | Unnatural besiege! Woe me unhappy, | Vnnaturall beseege, woe me vnhappie, |
| King John | KJ II.i.489 | Except this city now by us besieged – | (Except this Cittie now by vs besiedg'd) |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.227 | So it is, besieged with sable-coloured melancholy, I did | So it is besieged with sable coloured melancholie, I did |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.86 | Like one that comes here to besiege his court, | Like one that comes heere to besiege his Court, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.205 | Seem to besiege, and make his bold waves tremble, | Seeme to besiege, and make his bold waues tremble, |