| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.175 | O my sweet beef, I must still be good angel | O my sweet Beefe: / I must still be good Angell |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.146 | great meals of beef, and iron and steel; they will eat | great Meales of Beefe, and Iron and Steele; they will eate |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.148 | Ay, but these English are shrewdly out of beef. | I, but these English are shrowdly out of Beefe. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.x.55 | out the burly-boned clown in chines of beef ere thou | out the burly bon'd Clowne in chines of Beefe, ere thou |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.159 | Such as, but scant them of their chines of beef, | Such as but scant them of their chines of beefe, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.53 | Troth, sir, she hath eaten up all her beef, and | Troth sir, shee hath eaten vp all her beefe, and |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.7 | any conserves, give me conserves of beef. Ne'er ask me | any Conserues, giue me conserues of Beefe: nere ask me |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.23 | What say you to a piece of beef and mustard? | What say you to a peece of Beefe and Mustard? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.26 | Why then, the beef, and let the mustard rest. | Why then the Beefe, and let the Mustard rest. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.28 | Or else you get no beef of Grumio. | Or else you get no beefe of Grumio. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.30 | Why then, the mustard without the beef. | Why then the Mustard without the beefe. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.82 | am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to | am a great eater of beefe, and I beleeue that does harme to |