| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.x.13 | Both as the same, or rather ours the elder, | Both as the same, or rather ours the elder; |
| As You Like It | AYL I.i.50 | Come, come, elder | Come, come elder |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.121 | And found it was his brother, his elder brother. | And found it was his brother, his elder brother. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.421 | Not I, sir. You are my elder. | Not I sir, you are my elder. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.224 | Our musty superfluity. See, our best elders. | Our mustie superfluity. See our best Elders. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.40 | Most reverend and grave elders, to desire | Most reuerend and graue Elders, to desire |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vii.17 | No elder than a boy! | No elder then a Boy. |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.59 | And let the stinking-elder, grief, untwine | And let the stinking-Elder (Greefe) vntwine |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.i.14 | To second ills with ills, each elder worse, | To second illes with illes, each elder worse, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.242 | Till by some elder masters of known honour | Till by some elder Masters of knowne Honor, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iii.11 | I was not born a yielder, thou proud Scot, | I was not borne to yeeld, thou haughty Scot, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.253 | Look, whe'er the withered elder hath not | Looke, if the wither'd Elder hath not |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.ii.123 | Treason's true bed and yielder up of breath. | Treasons true Bed, and yeelder vp of breath. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.193 | of an elder-gun, that a poor and a private displeasure | of an Elder Gunne, that a poore and a priuate displeasure |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.226 | ladies I fright them. But in faith, Kate, the elder I wax, | Ladyes, I fright them: but in faith Kate, the elder I wax, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.ii.51 | So, if the issue of the elder son | So, if the Issue of the elder Sonne |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.133 | The elder of them, being put to nurse, | The elder of them being put to nurse, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.102 | My elder brother, the Lord Aubrey Vere, | My elder Brother, the Lord Aubrey Vere |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.118 | Belike the elder; Clarence will have the younger. | Belike, the elder; / Clarence will haue the younger. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.7 | To touch Calphurnia; for our elders say, | To touch Calphurnia: for our Elders say, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.47 | And I the elder and more terrible; | And I the elder and more terrible, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.56 | I said an elder soldier, not a better; | I saide, an Elder Souldier, not a Better. |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.41 | No less than forty thousand wicked elders | No lesse than fortie thousand wicked elders, |
| King John | KJ I.i.57 | Is that the elder, and art thou the heir? | Is that the elder, and art thou the heyre? |
| King John | KJ II.i.104 | That Geoffrey was thy elder brother born, | That Geffrey was thy elder brother borne, |
| King John | KJ II.i.239 | Son to the elder brother of this man, | Sonne to the elder brother of this man, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.19 | year elder than this, who yet is no dearer in my account. | yeere elder then this; who, yet is no deerer in my account, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.602 | Begin, sir; you are my elder. | Begin sir, you are my elder. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.603 | Well followed: Judas was hanged on an elder. | Well follow'd, Iudas was hang'd on an Elder. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.248 | How much more elder art thou than thy looks! | How much more elder art thou then thy lookes? |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.iii.26 | My Galen? My heart of elder? Ha? Is he dead, bully | my Galien? my heart of Elder? ha? is he dead bully- |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.30 | Some sleeves, some hats. From yielders all things catch. | Some sleeues, some hats, from yeelders all things catch, |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.15 | Grows elder now and cares it be not done; | Growes elder now, and cares it be not done. |
| Pericles | Per III.i.53 | briefly yield 'er, for she must overboard straight. | briefly yeeld'er, |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.43 | Which elder days shall ripen and confirm | Which elder dayes shall ripen, and confirme |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.21 | I see some sparks of better hope, which elder years | I see some sparkes of better hope: which elder dayes |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.501 | Bishop of Exeter, his elder brother, | Bishop of Exeter, his elder Brother, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.39 | 'Tis more, 'tis more. His son is elder, sir. | 'Tis more, 'tis more, his Sonne is elder sir: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.51 | Before I have a husband for the elder. | Before I haue a husband for the elder: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.177 | Her eldest sister is so curst and shrewd | Her elder sister is so curst and shrew'd, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.260 | Until the elder sister first be wed. | Vntill the elder sister first be wed. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.265 | Achieve the elder, set the younger free | Atchieue the elder: set the yonger free, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.7 | So well I know my duty to my elders. | So well I know my dutie to my elders. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.126 | I do not always follow lover, elder brother, and | do not alwayes follow Louer, elder Brother, aad |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.74 | Lavinia is thine elder brother's hope. | Lauinia is thine elder brothers hope. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.272 | Among the nettles at the elder tree | Among the Nettles at the Elder tree: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.277 | This is the pit, and this the elder tree. | This is the pit, and this the Elder tree, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.83 | He is elder. | He is elder. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.30 | An elder than herself; so wears she to him; | An elder then her selfe, so weares she to him; |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.98 | What was my first? It has an elder sister, | What was my first? it ha's an elder Sister, |