| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.50 | What will you do, good greybeard? Break a lance, | What will you doe, good gray-beard? / Breake a Launce, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.81 | And this word ‘ love,’ which greybeards call divine, | And this word (Loue) which Gray-beards call Diuine, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.67 | To be afeard to tell greybeards the truth? | To be afear'd to tell Gray-beards the truth: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.331.1 | Greybeard, thy love doth freeze. | Gray-beard thy loue doth freeze. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.144 | We'll overreach the greybeard Gremio, | Wee'll ouer-reach the grey-beard Gremio, |