| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.182 | Come, I will fasten on this sleeve of thine. | Come I will fasten on this sleeue of thine: |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.11 | To fasten in our thoughts that they have courage; | To fasten in our thoughts that they haue Courage; |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.145 | Those dogs of France would fasten on his flesh. | Those doggs of Fraunce would fasten on his flesh |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.199 | of you only. Therefore fasten your ear on my advisings. | of you onelie. Therefore fasten your eare on my aduisings, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.44 | If I can fasten but one cup upon him, | If I can fasten but one Cup vpon him |