| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.55 | Thou hast power to choose, and they none to forsake. | Thou hast power to choose, and they none to forsake. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.ii.39 | That we'll forsake ourselves. Give me that ring. | That wee'l forsake our selues. Giue me that Ring. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.38 | Forsake thy seat, I do beseech thee, captain, | Forsake thy seate I do beseech thee Captaine, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.20 | you forsake your liberty. | you forsake your libertie. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.40 | The walls they'll tear down than forsake the siege. | The Walls they'le teare downe, then forsake the Siege. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.ii.14 | If you forsake the offer of their love. | If you forsake the offer of their loue. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.24 | See, they forsake me! Now the time is come | See, they forsake me. Now the time is come, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.116 | Home to your cottages, forsake this groom. | Home to your Cottages: forsake this Groome. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.iv.50 | The citizens fly and forsake their houses; | The Citizens flye and forsake their houses: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.viii.9 | That will forsake thee and go home in peace. | That will forsake thee, and go home in peace. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vii.84 | To flatter Henry and forsake thy brother! | To flatter Henry, and forsake thy Brother? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.ii.25 | Even now forsake me, and of all my lands | Euen now forsake me; and of all my Lands, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iv.104 | I must not yet forsake you. Let's be merry, | I must not yet forsake you: Let's be merry, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.89 | Yet are the King's and, till my soul forsake, | Yet are the Kings; and till my Soule forsake, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.132 | Pray for me! I must now forsake ye; the last hour | Pray for me, I must now forsake ye; the last houre |
| King Edward III | E3 III.ii.31 | Forsake your loving parents in distress. | For sake your louing parents in distresse. |
| King John | KJ I.i.148 | I like thee well. Wilt thou forsake thy fortune, | I like thee well: wilt thou forsake thy fortune, |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.27 | And did forsake her. She had a song of willow; | And did forsake her. She had a Song of Willough, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.326 | You must forsake this room and go with us. | You must forsake this roome, and go with vs: |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.134 | Poor Clarence did forsake his father, Warwick; | Poore Clarence did forsake his Father Warwicke, |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.111 | Who told me how the poor soul did forsake | Who told me how the poore soule did forsake |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.75 | were your godheads to borrow of men, men would forsake | were your Godheads to borrow of men, men would forsake |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.81 | Forsake unsounded deeps to dance on sands. | Forsake vnsounded deepes, to dance on Sands. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.362 | Forsake the court: to do't or no is certain | Forsake the Court: to do't, or no, is certaine |