| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.104 | Bear us an errand to him. | Beare vs an arrant to him. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.7 | My errand is to you, fair youth: | My errand is to you, faire youth, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.72 | So that my errand, due unto my tongue, | so that my arrant due vnto my tongue, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.58 | Now, you companion, I'll say an errand for | Now you Companion: Ile say an arrant for you: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.69 | Is apter than thy tongue to tell thy errand. | Is apter then thy Tongue, to tell thy Errand. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.300 | I know thy errand, I will go with thee. | I know thy errand, I will goe with thee: |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.iv.3.2 | To know my errand, madam. | To know my errand Madam. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.374 | (aside) How shall I enter in this graceless errand? | How shall I enter in this gracelesse arrant, |
| King John | KJ III.i.137 | To thee, King John, my holy errand is. | To thee King Iohn my holy errand is: |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.35 | good go a mile on his errand. | good go a mile on his errand. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.74 | Hear the truth of it. He came of an errand to me from | heare the truth of it. He came of an errand to mee, from |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iv.106 | for Master Fenton. Well, I must of another errand to Sir | for M. Fenton. Well, I must of another errand to Sir |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.242 | the world's end? I will go on the slightest errand now | the worlds end? I will goe on the slightest arrand now |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.80 | Let me come in, and you shall know my errand. | Let me come in, / And you shall know my errand: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iv.14 | But hast thou done thy errand to Baptista? | But hast thou done thy errand to Baptista. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iv.8 | dissembling luxurious drab of a sleeveless errand. | dissembling luxurious drabbe, of a sleeuelesse errant. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.ii.46 | So meet for this great errand. Please your ladyship | So meete for this great errand; please your Ladiship |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.64 | But first I'll do my errand. The good Queen – | But first, Ile do my errand. The good Queene |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.230 | I am friend to them and you; upon which errand | I am friend to them, and you: Vpon which Errand |