| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.123 | Sleep, thou hast been a grandsire, and begot | Sleepe, thou hast bin a Grandsire, and begot |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.462.1 | Old grandsire Priam seeks.’ | Olde Grandsire Priam seekes. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.128 | That our great-grandsire, Edward, sicked and died. | That our great Grand-sire Edward sick'd, and dy'de. |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.103 | Go, my dread lord, to your great-grandsire's tomb, | Goe my dread Lord, to your great Grandsires Tombe, |
| Henry V | H5 III.chorus.20 | Guarded with grandsires, babies, and old women, | Guarded with Grandsires, Babyes, and old Women, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.125 | Wherein my grandsire and my father sat? | Wherein my Grandsire and my Father sat? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.37 | ‘What my great-grandfather and his grandsire got | What my great Grandfather, and Grandsire got, |
| King John | KJ V.iv.42 | For that my grandsire was an Englishman, | (For that my Grandsire was an Englishman) |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.84 | Sit, like his grandsire cut in alabaster? | Sit like his Grandsire, cut in Alablaster? |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.48 | gold, and silver, is her grandsire upon his death's-bed – | Gold, and Siluer, is her Grand-sire vpon his deaths-bed, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.54 | Did her grandsire leave her seven hundred | Did her Grand-sire leaue her seauen hundred |
| Othello | Oth I.i.92 | Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you. | Or else the deuill will make a Grand-sire of you. |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.104 | O, had thy grandsire with a prophet's eye | Oh had thy Grandsire with a Prophets eye, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.106 | That stands upon your royal grandsire's bones, | That stands vpon your Royall Grandsires Bones, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.37 | For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase – | For I am prouerb'd with a Grandsier Phrase, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.31 | not this a lamentable thing, grandsire, that we should be | not this a lamentable thing Grandsire, that we should be |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.v.50 | Do, good old grandsire, and withal make known | Do good old grandsire, & withall make known |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.46 | Good grandsire, leave these bitter deep laments; | Good grandsire leaue these bitter deepe laments, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.49 | Doth weep to see his grandsire's heaviness. | Doth weepe to see his grandsires heauinesse. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.1 | Help, grandsire, help! My aunt Lavinia | Helpe Grandsier helpe, my Aunt Lauinia, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.18 | For I have heard my grandsire say full oft | For I haue heard my Grandsier say full oft, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.42 | Grandsire, 'tis Ovid's Metamorphoses; | Grandsier 'tis Ouids Metamorphosis, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.117 | Ay, with my dagger in their bosoms, grandsire. | I with my dagger in their bosomes Grandsire: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.10 | My grandsire, well advised, hath sent by me | My Grandsire well aduis'd hath sent by me, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.160 | To melt in showers. Thy grandsire loved thee well: | To melt in showres: thy Grandsire lou'd thee well: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.171 | O grandsire, grandsire, ev'n with all my heart | O Grandsire, Grandsire: euen with all my heart |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.292 | When Hector's grandsire sucked: he is old now; | When Hectors Grandsire suckt: he is old now, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.104 | was mouldy ere your grandsires had nails on their toes | was mouldy ere their Grandsires had nails on their toes, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.196 | I never saw till now. I knew thy grandsire, | I neuer saw till now. I knew thy Grandsire, |