| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.84 | I have tonight dispatched sixteen businesses a | I haue to night dispatch'd sixteene businesses, a |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.60.1 | You patched up your excuses. | you patcht vp your excuses. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.ii.2 | They have dispatched with Pompey; he is gone. | They haue dispatcht with Pompey, he is gone, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.251 | With those that have but little. This must be patched | With those that haue but little: this must be patcht |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.iv.39 | Those things I bid you do, get them dispatched. – | Those things I bid you do, get them dispatch'd, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.75 | Of life, of crown, of queen at once dispatched, | Of Life, of Crowne, and Queene at once dispatcht; |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.144 | You shall be soon dispatched with fair conditions. | You shalbe soone dispatcht, with faire conditions. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.72 | And whilst a field should be dispatched and fought, | And whil'st a Field should be dispatcht and fought, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.2 | We have dispatched the Duke as he commanded. | We haue dispatcht the Duke, as he commanded. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.6 | Now, sirs, have you dispatched this thing? | Now Sirs, haue you dispatcht this thing? |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.54 | Well, then we'll have a pursuivant dispatched | Well then wele haue a Pursiuaunt dispatch, |
| King John | KJ I.i.99 | – And once dispatched him in an embassy | And once dispatch'd him in an Embassie |
| King John | KJ III.i.47 | Patched with foul moles and eye-offending marks, | Patch'd with foule Moles, and eye-offending markes, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.34 | Than did the fault before it was so patched. | Then did the fault before it was so patch'd. |
| King John | KJ V.vii.90 | For many carriages he hath dispatched | For many carriages hee hath dispatch'd |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.15.1 | Is he dispatched? | Is he dispatch'd? |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.176 | dispatched? | dispatch'd? |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.177 | Dispatched? I'll make the best in Gloucestershire | Dispatch'd? Ile make the best in Glostershire |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.207 | I was – and methought I had – but man is but a patched | I was, and me-thought I had. But man is but a patch'd |
| Pericles | Per II.v.14 | So, they are well dispatched. | So, they are well dispatcht: |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.103 | What, are there no posts dispatched for Ireland? | What, are there postes dispatcht for Ireland? |
| Richard II | R2 III.i.35 | My Lord Northumberland, see them dispatched. | My Lord Northumberland, see them dispatch'd: |
| Richard II | R2 III.i.40 | A gentleman of mine I have dispatched | A Gentleman of mine I haue dispatch'd |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.274 | A bloody deed, and desperately dispatched! | A bloody deed, and desperately dispatcht: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.127 | See this dispatched with all the haste thou canst, | See this dispatch'd with all the hast thou canst, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.191 | Now stay your strife; what shall be is dispatched. | Now stay you strife, what shall be, is dispatcht: |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.43 | patched: virtue that transgresses is but patched with | patch'd: vertu that transgresses, is but patcht with |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.44 | sin; and sin that amends is but patched with virtue. If | sinne, and sin that amends, is but patcht with vertue. If |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.182 | Most piteous to be wild – I have dispatched in post | Most pitteous to be wilde) I haue dispatch'd in post, |