| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.223 | That thou thyself was born in bastardy; | That thou thy selfe wast borne in Bastardie; |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.138 | Is guilty of a several bastardy, | Is guilty of a seuerall Bastardie, |
| King John | KJ I.i.74 | But once he slandered me with bastardy. | But once he slanderd me with bastardy: |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.10 | With ‘ base ’? with ‘ baseness ’? ‘ bastardy ’? ‘ base, base ’? | With Base? With basenes Barstadie? Base, Base? |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.74 | Infer the bastardy of Edward's children. | Inferre the Bastardie of Edwards Children: |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.4 | Touched you the bastardy of Edward's children? | Toucht you the Bastardie of Edwards Children? |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.9 | His tyranny for trifles; his own bastardy, | His Tyrannie for Trifles, his owne Bastardie, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.48 | And by his side his fruit of bastardy. | And by his side his Fruite of Bastardie. |