| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.154 | Shall weigh thee to the beam; that wilt not know | Shall weigh thee to the beame: That wilt not know, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.5 | Below the beam of sight, yet will I still | Below the beame of sight; yet will I still |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.159 | Till our scale turn the beam. O rose of May, | Till our Scale turnes the beame. Oh Rose of May, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.63 | Twinkling another counterfeited beam, | Twinkling another counterfetted beame, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.200 | Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails. | Whose Beame stands sure, whose rightful cause preuailes. |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.129 | Will serve to strangle thee; a rush will be a beam | Will serue to strangle thee: A rush will be a beame |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.160 | But I a beam do find in each of three. | But I a Beame doe finde in each of three. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.56 | Sometimes the beam of her view gilded my foot, | sometimes the beame of her view, guilded my foote: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.i.21 | weaver's beam, because I know also life is a shuttle. I | Weauers beame, because I know also, life is a Shuttle) I |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.323 | in our wills. If the beam of our lives had not one scale | in our Wills. If the braine of our liues had not one Scale |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.133 | Which end o'th' beam should bow. We have lost your son, | Which end o'th' beame should bow: we haue lost your son, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.v.9 | And stands colossus-wise, waving his beam, | And stands Calossus-wise wauing his beame, |