| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.35 | Unarm, Eros. The long day's task is done, | Vnarme Eros, the long dayes taske is done, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.32 | A heavier task could not have been imposed | A heauier taske could not haue beene impos'd, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.37 | Like to a harvest-man that's tasked to mow | Like to a Haruest man, that task'd to mowe |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.260 | Thou thy worldly task has done, | Thou thy worldly task hast don, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.75 | Why such impress of shipwrights, whose sore task | Why such impresse of Ship-wrights, whose sore Taske |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.9 | Nay, task me to my word, approve me, lord. | Nay, taske me to my word: approue me Lord. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.92 | And in the neck of that tasked the whole state. | And in the neck of that, task't the whole State. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.ii.50 | How showed his tasking? Seemed it in contempt? | How shew'd his Talking? Seem'd it in contempt? |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.6 | That task our thoughts, concerning us and France. | That taske our thoughts, concerning vs and France. |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.310 | Therefore let every man now task his thought | Therefore let euery man now taske his thought, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.152 | Farewell, my masters; to my task will I. | Farwell my Masters, to my Taske will I, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.9 | I have performed my task and was espoused; | I haue perform'd my Taske, and was espous'd, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.318 | Then, noble York, take thou this task in hand. | Then, Noble Yorke, take thou this Taske in hand. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.199 | But sound the trumpets, and about our task. | But sound the Trumpets, and about our Taske. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.52 | Why stops my lord? Shall I not hear my task? | Why stoppes my Lord? shall I not heare my Taske? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.53 | An easy task; 'tis but to love a king. | An easie Taske, 'tis but to loue a King. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.40 | Now, Douglas, to our former task again, | Now Duglas to our former taske again, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.194 | Of her, whose ransacked treasury hath tasked | Of her whose ransackt treasurie hath taskt, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.48 | And make a thousand millions of a task | And make a thousand millions of a taske, |
| King John | KJ II.i.55 | And stir them up against a mightier task. | And stirre them vp against a mightier taske: |
| King John | KJ III.i.148 | Can task the free breath of a sacred king? | Can tast the free breath of a sacred King? |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.340 | You are much more a-taxed for want of wisdom | Your are much more at task for want of wisedome, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.47 | O, these are barren tasks, too hard to keep, | O, these are barren taskes, too hard to keepe, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.20 | But now to task the tasker. Good Boyet, | But now to taske the tasker, good Boyet, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.126 | And will they so? The gallants shall be tasked; | And will they so? the Gallants shall be taskt: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.841 | With groaning wretches; and your task shall be | With groaning wretches: and your taske shall be, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.vi.30 | While other sports are tasking of their minds, | While other sports are tasking of their mindes, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.364 | All with weary task fordone. | All with weary taske fore-done. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.278 | That liked, but had a rougher task in hand | That lik'd, but had a rougher taske in hand, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.38 | not task my weakness with any more. | not taske my weakenesse with any more. |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.184 | emperor's side and command him tasks. | Emperours side, and command him Taskes. |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.111 | Do it with gentle means and easy tasks: | Do it with gentle meanes, and easie taskes. |
| Pericles | Per I.i.2 | The danger of the task you undertake? | The danger of the taske you vndertake. |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.144 | Alas, poor Duke! The task he undertakes | Alas poore Duke, the taske he vndertakes |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.191 | An easy task it is to win our own. | An easie taske it is to winne our owne. |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.52 | I task the earth to the like, forsworn Aumerle, | |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.192 | On the curled clouds. To thy strong bidding task | On the curld clowds: to thy strong bidding, taske |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.4 | Point to rich ends. This my mean task | Point to rich ends: this my meane Taske |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.274 | Come, let me see what task I have to do. | Come let me see what taske I haue to doe, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.58 | And day by day I'll do this heavy task, | And day by day Ile do this heauy taske, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.149 | For nature puts me to a heavy task. | For Nature puts me to a heauy taske: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iv.41 | Love's provocations, zeal, a mistress' task, | Loves, provocations, zeale, a mistris Taske, |