| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.i.16 | I'll set a bourn how far to be beloved. | Ile set a bourne how farre to be belou'd. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.79 | The undiscovered country, from whose bourn | The vndiscouered Countrey, from whose Borne |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.57 | From the dread summit of this chalky bourn. | From the dread Somnet of this Chalkie Bourne |
| Pericles | Per IV.iv.4 | From bourn to bourn, region to region. | From bourne to bourne, region to region, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.155 | Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none. | Borne, bound of Land, Tilth, Vineyard none: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.246 | Which, like a bourn, a pale, a shore, confines | Which like a bourne, a pale, a shore confines |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.134 | No bourn 'twixt his and mine, yet were it true | No borne 'twixt his and mine; yet were it true, |