| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.216 | virginity, and devours up all the fry it finds. | Virginity, and deuours vp all the fry it finds. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.256 | The present wars devour him; he is grown | The present Warres deuoure him, he is growne |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.9 | Ay, to devour him, as the hungry plebeians | I, to deuour him, as the hungry Plebeians |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.79 | Have all forsook me, hath devoured the rest, | Haue all forsooke me, hath deuour'd the rest: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.47 | He seemed in running to devour the way, | He seem'd in running, to deuoure the way, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iii.13 | That trembles under his devouring paws; | That trembles vnder his deuouring Pawes: |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.80 | Of war's devouring gulfs and steely rocks, | Of warres deuouring gulphes and steely rocks, |
| King John | KJ V.vi.41 | These Lincoln Washes have devoured them; | These Lincolne-Washes haue deuoured them, |
| King John | KJ V.vii.64 | Devoured by the unexpected flood. | Deuoured by the vnexpected flood. |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.24 | The good-years shall devour them, flesh and fell, | The good yeares shall deuoure them, flesh and fell, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.4 | When, spite of cormorant devouring Time, | when spight of cormorant deuouring Time, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.74 | That vulture in you to devour so many | That Vulture in you, to deuoure so many |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.148 | The jaws of darkness do devour it up. | The iawes of darkness do deuoure it vp: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.188 | hath devoured many a gentleman of your house. I | hath deuoured many a gentleman of your house. I |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.28 | And greedily devour the treacherous bait; | And greedily deuoure the treacherous baite: |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.149 | Devour up my discourse, which I observing | Deuoure vp my discourse. Which I obseruing, |
| Pericles | Per II.i.32 | devour them all at a mouthful. Such whales have I heard | deuowre them all at a mouthfull: / Such Whales haue I heard |
| Pericles | Per IV.iv.25 | And Pericles, in sorrow all devoured, | And Pericles in sorrowe all deuour'd, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.284 | Devouring pestilence hangs in our air | |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.vi.7 | Then love-devouring death do what he dare – | Then Loue-deuouring death do what he dare, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.85 | Performed, my Ariel: a grace it had, devouring. | Perform'd (my Ariell) a grace it had deuouring: |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.155 | That they devour their reason, and scarce think | That they deuoure their reason, and scarce thinke |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.235 | Out of this fell devouring receptacle, | Out of this fell deuouring receptacle, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.57 | From these devourers to be banished. | From these deuourers to be banished? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.156 | devours the deed in the praise. | deuoures the deede in the praise. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.148 | Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devoured | Those scraps are good deedes past, / Which are deuour'd |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.226 | Whom the blind waves and surges have devoured. | Whom the blinde waues and surges haue deuour'd: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.70 | Fearful consumers, you will all devour! | Fearefull consumers, you will all devoure. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.28 | May drop upon his kingdom and devour | May drop vpon his Kingdome, and deuoure |