| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.152 | More than you doubt the change on't, that prefer | More then you doubt the change on't: That preferre |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.63 | You must not so far prefer her 'fore ours of Italy. | You must not so farre preferre her, 'fore ours of Italy. |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.45 | Prefer you to his daughter: frame yourself | Preferre you to his daughter: Frame your selfe |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.386 | Than thine own worth prefer thee: go with me. | Then thine owne worth preferre thee: Go with me. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.327 | Ere I arise I will prefer my sons; | Ere I arise, I will preferre my Sonnes, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.111 | Or who should study to prefer a peace | Or who should study to preferre a Peace, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.28 | And presently prefer his suit to Caesar. | And presently preferre his suite to Casar. |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.v.62 | Ay, if Messala will prefer me to you. | I, if Messala will preferre me to you. |
| King Lear | KL I.i.274 | I would prefer him to a better place. | I would prefer him to a better place, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.109 | Of modern seeming do prefer against him. | Of moderne seeming, do prefer against him. |
| Othello | Oth II.i.269 | shall then have to prefer them, and the impediment most | shall then haue to preferre them. And the impediment most |
| Pericles | Per II.ii.17 | Who is the first that doth prefer himself? | Who is the first, that doth preferre himselfe? |
| Richard III | R3 IV.ii.80 | And I will love thee and prefer thee for it. | And I will loue thee, and preferre thee for it. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.97 | Prefer them hither; for to cunning men | Preferre them hither: for to cunning men, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.35 | And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart, | And ne're preferre his iniuries to his heart, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.108 | This before all the world do I prefer; | This, before all the world do I preferre, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.154 | Have I not reason to prefer mine own? | Haue I not reason to prefer mine owne? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.155 | And I will help thee to prefer her too: | And I will help thee to prefer her to: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.4 | I have access my own love to prefer; | I haue accesse my owne loue to prefer. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.ii.82 | And happiness prefer me to a place | And happines preferre me to a place, |