| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.102 | Construe the times to their necessities, | Construe the Times to their Necessities, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.45 | Nor construe any further my neglect, | Nor construe any further my neglect, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.34 | But men may construe things after their fashion, | But men may construe things after their fashion, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.307 | All my engagements I will construe to thee, | All my engagements, I will construe to thee, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.341 | Construe my speeches better, if you may. | Construe my speeches better, if you may. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.41 | she carves, she gives the leer of invitation. I can construe | shee carues: she giues the leere of inuitation: I can construe |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.101 | And his unbookish jealousy must construe | And his vnbookish Ielousie must conserue |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.i.30 | Construe them. | Conster them. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.i.40 | Now let me see if I can construe it. ‘ Hic ibat | Now let mee see if I can conster it. Hic ibat |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.56 | Which they would have the profferer construe ay. | Which they would haue the profferer construe, I. |