| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.157 | they are afoot. What say you to that? | they are a foot. What say you to that? |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ii.25.1 | Should know we were afoot. | Should know we were a-foot. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.80 | Something's afore't – soft, soft! we'll no defence – | Something's a-foot: Soft, soft, wee'l no defence, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.88 | I prithee, when thou seest that act afoot, | I prythee, when thou see'st that Acte a-foot, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.272 | Before the game is afoot thou still lettest slip. | Before the game's a-foot, thou still let'st slip. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.ii.13 | afoot, I shall break my wind. Well, I doubt not but to | a foote, I shall breake my winde. Well, I doubt not but to |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.ii.25 | afoot with me, and the stony-hearted villains know it | afoot with me: and the stony-hearted Villaines knowe it |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.ii.34 | down? 'Sblood, I'll not bear my own flesh so far afoot | downe? Ile not beare mine owne flesh so far afoot |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.ii.46 | and afoot too – I hate it! | & a foote too, I hate it. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.ii.78 | our horses down the hill. We'll walk afoot awhile and | our Horses downe the hill: Wee'l walke a-foot a while, and |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.87 | So far afoot I shall be weary, love. | So farre a foot, I shall be weary, Loue. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.346 | A-horseback, ye cuckoo, but afoot he will not | A Horse-backe (ye Cuckoe) but a foot hee will not |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.9 | And pause us till these rebels now afoot | And pawse vs, till these Rebels, now a-foot, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.212 | So may a thousand actions, once afoot, | So may a thousand actions once a foote, |
| Henry V | H5 III.i.32 | Straining upon the start. The game's afoot! | Straying vpon the Start. The Game's afoot: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.ii.8 | How now, my noble lord? What, all afoot? | How now my Noble Lord? What all a-foot. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vii.18 | Went all afoot in summer's scalding heat, | Went all afoote in Summers scalding heate, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.262 | Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot, | Now let it worke: Mischeefe thou art a-foot, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.181 | And, lowly at his stirrup, comes afoot | and lowly at his stirop comes a foot |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.210 | To keep base life afoot. Return with her! | To keepe base life a foote; returne with her? |
| King Lear | KL IV.iii.49 | 'Tis so. They are afoot. | |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.185 | For that I saw the tyrant's power afoot. | For that I saw the Tyrants Power a-foot. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.v.3 | The matter being afoot, keep your instruction, | The matter being a foote, keepe your instruction |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.16 | ten mile afoot to see a good armour; and now will he lie | ten mile afoot, to see a good armor, and now will he lie |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.63 | And meet him, were I tied to run afoot | And meete him, were I tide to runne afoote, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.29 | But were our witty Empress well afoot, | But were our witty Empresse well afoot, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.v.21 | And there lacks work; anon he's there afoot, | And there lacks worke: anon he's there a foote, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.104 | Is't said this war's afoot, or it shall be | Ist sed this warres afoote? or it shall be |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.iv.54.1 | He shall not go afoot. | He shall not goe a foote. |