| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.60 | To have her name repeated; all her deserving | To haue her name repeated, all her deseruing |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xii.32 | Vanish, or I shall give thee thy deserving | Vanish, or I shall giue thee thy deseruing, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ix.20 | The grave of your deserving. Rome must know | the Graue of your deseruing, / Rome must know |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.i.7 | Than in his feats deserving it – for him, | Then in his Feats deseruing it) for him, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.ii.57 | Spoke your deserving like a chronicle, | Spoke your deseruings like a Chronicle, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.43 | deserving. | deseruing. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.9 | Virtue he had, deserving to command; | Vertue he had, deseruing to command, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.98 | And well deserving? Yet I know her for | And well deseruing? yet I know her for |
| King Lear | KL I.i.30 | Sir, I shall study deserving. | Sir, I shall study deseruing. |
| King Lear | KL III.iii.21 | This seems a fair deserving, and must draw me | This seemes a faire deseruing, and must draw me |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.474 | 'Tis my deserving, and I do entreat it. | 'Tis my deseruing, and I doe entreat it. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.112 | foolish eyes looked upon, was the best deserving a fair | foolish eyes look'd vpon, was the best deseruing a faire |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vii.29 | And yet to be afeard of my deserving | And yet to be afeard of my deseruing, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.334 | I confess me knit to thy deserving with cables of perdurable | I confesse me knit to thy deseruing, with Cables of perdurable |
| Othello | Oth II.i.142 | best. But what praise couldst thou bestow on a deserving | best. But what praise could'st thou bestow on a deseruing |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.263 | deserving. You have lost no reputation at all, unless you | deseruing. You haue lost no Reputation at all, vnlesse you |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.34 | A right good creature, more to me deserving | A right good creature, more to me deserving |