| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.52 | Of noble bachelors stand at my bestowing, | Of Noble Batchellors, stand at my bestowing, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vii.12.1 | Err in bestowing it. | Erre in bestowing it. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.163 | For not bestowing on him at his asking | For not bestowing on him at his asking, |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.56 | Which was a sin – yet in bestowing, madam, | (Which was a sinne) yet in bestowing, Madam, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.35 | And all my powers do their bestowing lose, | And all my powers doe their bestowing loose, |