| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.84 | Bestowed his lips on that unworthy place, | Bestow'd his lips on that vnworthy place, |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.32 | bestowed equally. | bestowed equally. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.ii.78 | In what safe place you have bestowed my money, | In what safe place you haue bestow'd my monie; |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.521 | bestowed? Do you hear? Let them be well used, for | bestow'd. Do ye heare, let them be well vs'd: for |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.ii.1 | Safely stowed. | Safely stowed. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iii.12 | Where the dead body is bestowed, my lord, | Where the dead body is bestow'd my Lord, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.ii.74 | I have bestowed to breed this present peace | I haue bestow'd, To breede this present Peace, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.12 | liveries, I would have bestowed the thousand pound I | Liueries, I would haue bestowed the thousand pound I |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.289 | And on it have bestowed more contrite tears | And on it haue bestowed more contrite teares, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vii.66 | Large gifts have I bestowed on learned clerks, | Large gifts haue I bestow'd on learned Clearkes, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.56 | Or else you would not have bestowed the heir | Or else you would not haue bestow'd the Heire |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vii.60 | Come, gentlemen, I will see my friend bestowed | Come gentlemen, I will see my friend bestowed, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.284 | Cannot be well bestowed. | Cannot be well bestow'd. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.29 | We hear our bloody cousins are bestowed | We heare our bloody Cozens are bestow'd |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.229 | in her discoveries of dishonour. In few, bestowed her | in her, discoueries of dishonor: in few, bestow'd her |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.158 | These things being bought and orderly bestowed, | These things being bought and orderly bestowed |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iv.19 | How little is the cost I have bestowed | How little is the cost I haue bestowed |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.221 | 'tis labour well bestowed. | 'tis labour well bestowed. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.189 | bestowed much on her, followed her with a doting | bestowed much on her: followed her with a doating |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.v.98 | other! And so they shall be both bestowed. I have | other: and so they shall be both bestowed; I haue |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.10 | bestowed much honour on a young Florentine called | bestowed much honor on a yong Florentine, called |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.210 | have worn himself, and the rod he might have bestowed | haue worne himselfe, and the rod hee might haue bestowed |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.168 | I would she had bestowed this dotage on me; | I would shee had bestowed this dotage on mee, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.ii.89 | marriage – surely suit ill spent, and labour ill bestowed! | marriage: surely sute ill spent, and labour ill bestowed. |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.62 | O thou foul thief! Where hast thou stowed my daughter? | Oh thou foule Theefe, / Where hast thou stow'd my Daughter? |
| Pericles | Per IV.iv.41 | Hath Thetis' birth-child on the heavens bestowed. | Hath Thetis byrth-childe on the heauens bestowed. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iv.35 | With one consent to have her so bestowed. | With one consent to haue her so bestowed: |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.230 | The mariners all under hatches stowed, | The Marriners all vnder hatches stowed, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.463 | And wonder of good deeds evilly bestowed! | And wonder of good deeds, euilly bestow'd! |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.160 | Whose life were ill bestowed, or death unfamed, | Whose life were ill bestow'd, or death vnfam'd, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.89 | had bestowed that time in the tongues that I have in | had bestowed that time in the tongues, that I haue in |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.82 | The parts that fortune hath bestowed upon her | The parts that fortune hath bestow'd vpon her: |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.5 | the Count's servingman than ever she bestowed upon | the Counts Seruing-man, then euer she bestow'd vpon |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.162 | Which, all too much, I have bestowed on thee. | Which (all too-much) I haue bestowed on thee. |