| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.175 | I and my sword will earn our chronicle. | I, and my Sword, will earne our Chronicle, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.69 | Sir, I am a true labourer: I earn that I eat, get | Sir, I am a true Labourer, I earne that I eate: get |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.95 | my sworn brother, the people, to earn a dearer estimation | my sworne Brother the people to earne a deerer estimation |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.24 | keep it still at a face-royal, for a barber shall never earn | keepe it still at a Face-Royall, for a Barber shall neuer earne |
| Henry V | H5 II.iii.3 | No, for my manly heart doth earn. | No: for my manly heart doth erne. |
| Henry V | H5 II.iii.6 | And we must earn therefore. | and wee must erne therefore. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.99 | His excellence did earn it ere he had it. | His excellence did earne it ere he had it: |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.162 | To do the act that might the addition earn | To do the Act, that might the addition earne, |