| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.203 | It beggared all description. She did lie | It beggerd all discription, she did lye |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.93 | Wherein necessity, of matter beggared, | Where in necessitie of matter Beggard, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.41 | Big Mars seems bankrupt in their beggared host, | Bigge Mars seemes banqu'rout in their begger'd Hoast, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.90.1 | And beggared yours for ever? | and begger'd / Yours for euer? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vi.19 | Lean, rent, and beggared by the strumpet wind. | Leane, rent, and begger'd by the strumpet winde? |