| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.46 | a forehand shaft a fourteen and fourteen and a half, | a fore-hand Shaft at foureteene, and foure-teene and a halfe, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.273 | Had the fore-hand and vantage of a king. | Had the fore-hand and vantage of a King. |
| King John | KJ V.vii.111 | Since it hath been beforehand with our griefs. | Since it hath beene before hand with our greefes. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.461 | Knowing aforehand of our merriment, | Knowing aforehand of our merriment, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.48 | And so extenuate the 'forehand sin. | And so extenuate the forehand sinne: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.143 | The sinew and the forehand of our host, | The sinew, and the fore-hand of our Hoste, |