| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xi.60 | Thy beck might from the bidding of the gods | Thy becke, might from the bidding of the Gods |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.125 | ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I | Ambitious, with more offences at my becke, then I |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.68 | And they have troops of soldiers at their beck? | And they haue troupes of Souldiers at their beck? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.33 | Each in his office ready at thy beck. | Each in his office readie at thy becke. |