| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.29 | And bootless 'tis to tell you we will go. | And bootlesse 'tis to tell you we will go: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.63 | Bootless home, and weather-beaten back. | Bootlesse home, and Weather-beaten backe. |
| Henry V | H5 III.iii.24 | We may as bootless spend our vain command | We may as bootlesse spend our vaine Command |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.20 | With bootless labour swim against the tide | With bootlesse labour swimme against the Tyde, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.iii.12 | Bootless is flight; they follow us with wings, | Bootlesse is flight, they follow vs with Wings, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.23 | Bootless are plaints, and cureless are my wounds; | Bootlesse are Plaints, and Curelesse are my Wounds: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.70 | Clifford, repent in bootless penitence. | Clifford, repent in bootlesse penitence. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.61 | To plead your cause. It shall be therefore bootless | To pleade your Cause. It shall be therefore bootlesse, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.75.2 | Doth not Brutus bootless kneel? | Doth not Brutus bootlesse kneele? |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.10 | Mine ears are stopped against your bootless cries. | Mine eares are stopt against your bootelesse cryes, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.292.2 | Very bootless. | Very bootlesse. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.64 | And spend his prodigal wits in bootless rhymes, | And spend his prodigall wits in booteles rimes. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iii.20 | I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers. | Ile follow him no more with bootlesse prayers: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.37 | And bootless make the breathless housewife churn, | And bootlesse make the breathlesse huswife cherne, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.233 | Makes speed to catch the tiger – bootless speed, | Makes speed to catch the Tyger. Bootlesse speede, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.207 | He robs himself that spends a bootless grief. | He robs himselfe, that spends a bootelesse griefe. |
| Pericles | Per V.i.30 | But bootless is your sight; he will not speak | but bootlesse. Is your sight, see will not speake |
| Richard III | R3 III.iv.102 | Come, come, dispatch! 'Tis bootless to exclaim. | Come, come, dispatch, 'tis bootlesse to exclaime. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.35 | And left me to a bootless inquisition, | And left me to a bootelesse Inquisition, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.36 | And bootless unto them. | |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.75 | In bootless prayer have they been held up, | In bootelesse prayer haue they bene held vp, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.153 | Then, bootless toil must recompense itself | Then, booteles toyle must recompence it selfe, |