| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vi.24 | carried into the leaguer of the adversaries when we | carried into the Leager of the aduersaries, when we |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.213 | Madding my eagerness with her restraint, | Madding my eagernesse with her restraint, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.2 | It is a nipping and an eager air. | It is a nipping and an eager ayre. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.69 | And curd, like eager droppings into milk, | And curd, like Aygre droppings into Milke, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.38 | And hunger will enforce them to be more eager. | And hunger will enforce them to be more eager: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.162 | Of ashy semblance, meagre, pale, and bloodless, | Of ashy semblance, meager, pale, and bloodlesse, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.3 | And all my followers to the eager foe | And all my followers, to the eager foe |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.68 | If so thou thinkest, vex him with eager words. | If so thou think'st, / Vex him with eager Words. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.240 | How eagerly ye follow my disgraces | How eagerly ye follow my Disgraces |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.24 | So went to bed, where eagerly his sickness | So went to bed; where eagerly his sicknesse |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.iii.7 | Took it too eagerly; his soldiers fell to spoil, | Tooke it too eagerly: his Soldiers fell to spoyle, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.25 | With eager rods beyond their city, York; | With eager Rods beyond their Citie Yorke, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.115 | Who, proud of this and eager of revenge, | Who proud of this, and eager of reuenge, |
| King John | KJ III.i.80 | The meagre cloddy earth to glittering gold. | The meager cloddy earth to glittering gold: |
| King John | KJ III.iv.85 | As dim and meagre as an ague's fit, | As dim and meager as an Agues fitte, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.104 | 'Tween man and man. But thou, thou meagre lead | 'Tweene man and man: but thou, thou meager lead |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.49 | The bitter clamour of two eager tongues, | The bitter clamour of two eager tongues, |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.37 | With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder. | With eager feeding, food doth choake the feeder: |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.74 | What shrill-voiced suppliant makes this eager cry? | What shrill-voic'd Suppliant, makes this eager cry? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.40 | Culling of simples. Meagre were his looks. | Culling of Simples, meager were his lookes, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.18 | As once did Meleager and the boar, | as once did Meleager, and the Bore |