| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| King Lear | KL I.i.272 | To your professed bosoms I commit him. | To your professed bosomes I commit him, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.226 | merry at anything which professed to make him rejoice: | merrie at anie thing which profest to make him reioice. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.97 | Professed the contrary. | Profest the contrarie. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.158 | me speak after my custom, as being a professed tyrant | me speake after my custome, as being a professed tyrant |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.61 | you professed apprehension? | you profest apprehension? |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.333 | and blind puppies. I have professed me thy friend, and | and blind Puppies. I haue profest me thy Friend, and |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.51 | A sin-absolver, and my friend professed, | A Sin-Absoluer, and my Friend profest: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.428 | That you are thieves professed, that you work not | That you are Theeues profest: that you worke not |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.456 | Professed to him, why, his revenges must | Profess'd to him: why his Reuenges must |