| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.107 | A wretched ragged man, o'ergrown with hair, | A wretched ragged man, ore-growne with haire |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iv.33 | So out of thought, and thereto so o'ergrown, | So out of thought, and thereto so ore-growne, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.27 | By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, | |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.32 | Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden, | Suffer them now, and they'le o're-grow the Garden, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iii.22 | Even like an o'ergrown lion in a cave, | Euen like an ore-growne Lyon in a Caue |