| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.256 | The present wars devour him; he is grown | The present Warres deuoure him, he is growne |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.9 | Ay, to devour him, as the hungry plebeians | I, to deuour him, as the hungry Plebeians |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.47 | He seemed in running to devour the way, | He seem'd in running, to deuoure the way, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.24 | The good-years shall devour them, flesh and fell, | The good yeares shall deuoure them, flesh and fell, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.74 | That vulture in you to devour so many | That Vulture in you, to deuoure so many |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.148 | The jaws of darkness do devour it up. | The iawes of darkness do deuoure it vp: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.28 | And greedily devour the treacherous bait; | And greedily deuoure the treacherous baite: |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.149 | Devour up my discourse, which I observing | Deuoure vp my discourse. Which I obseruing, |
| Pericles | Per II.i.32 | devour them all at a mouthful. Such whales have I heard | deuowre them all at a mouthfull: / Such Whales haue I heard |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.155 | That they devour their reason, and scarce think | That they deuoure their reason, and scarce thinke |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.70 | Fearful consumers, you will all devour! | Fearefull consumers, you will all devoure. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.28 | May drop upon his kingdom and devour | May drop vpon his Kingdome, and deuoure |