| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.11 | Yielded the town. He is retired to Antium. | Yeelded the Towne: he is retyred to Antium. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.36 | Since the exile of Posthumus, most retired | Since the exile of Posthumus, most retyr'd |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.13 | He is retired to ripe his growing fortunes | Hee is retyr'd, to ripe his growing Fortunes, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ix.9 | Or is he but retired to make him strong? | Or is he but retir'd to make him strong? |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.8 | Is now retired and gone another way: | Is now retirde and gone an other way: |
| King John | KJ V.iv.53 | And like a bated and retired flood, | And like a bated and retired Flood, |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.46 | That he, our hope, might have retired his power, | That he our hope, might haue retyr'd his power, |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.96 | And, toiled with works of war, retired himself | And toyl'd with workes of Warre, retyr'd himselfe |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.91 | With that which, but by being so retired, | with that, which but by being so retir'd |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.167 | I have retired me to a wasteful cock | I haue retyr'd me to a wastefull cocke, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.57 | Hearing you were retired, your friends fall'n off, | Hearing you were retyr'd, your Friends falne off, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.ii.31 | have missingly noted he is of late much retired from | haue (missingly) noted, he is of late much retyred from |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.62 | She would to each one sip. You are retired, | She would to each one sip. You are retyred, |