| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.171 | Shall share the good of our returned fortune | Shal share the good of our returned fortune, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.ii.42 | What now? How chance thou art returned so soon? | What now? How chance thou art return'd so soone. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.ii.43 | Returned so soon? Rather approached too late. | Return'd so soone, rather approacht too late: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.1 | Neither my husband nor the slave returned, | Neither my husband nor the slaue return'd, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.16 | To a rope's end, sir, and to that end am I returned. | To a ropes end sir, and to that end am I return'd. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.232 | For certain ducats. He with none returned. | For certaine Duckets: he with none return'd. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.14 | returned his brows bound with oak. I tell thee, daughter, | return'd, his browes bound with Oake. I tell thee Daughter, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.i.43 | Return me, as Cominius is returned, | returne mee, / As Cominius is return'd, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.71 | Hail, Lords! I am returned your soldier, | Haile Lords, I am return'd your Souldier: |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.200 | That I returned with simular proof enough | That I return'd with simular proofe enough, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.91 | Was gaged by our King, which had returned | Was gaged by our King: which had return'd |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.41 | Are joyfully returned. | Are ioyfully return'd. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.60 | To thine own peace. If he be now returned, | To thine owne peace: if he be now return'd, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.129 | Hamlet returned shall know you are come home. | Hamlet return'd, shall know you are come home: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.ii.27 | My uncle is returned; | My Vnkle is return'd, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.104 | is returned with some discomfort from Wales. | is return'd with some discomfort from Wales. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.222 | Here is returned my Lord of Westmorland. | Heere is return'd my Lord of Westmerland. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.23 | Talbot, my life, my joy, again returned? | Talbot, my life, my ioy, againe return'd? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.20 | And answer was returned that he will come. | And answer was return'd, that he will come. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iii.1 | Are not the speedy scouts returned again | Are not the speedy scouts return'd againe, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iii.3 | They are returned, my lord, and give it out | They are return'd my Lord, and giue it out, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.64 | He is returned in his opinions, which | He is return'd in his Opinions, which |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.400.2 | That Cranmer is returned with welcome, | That Cranmer is return'd with welcome; |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.64 | I sent your message, who returned her thanks | I sent your Message, who return'd her thankes |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.290 | Followed the old man forth. He is returned. | Followed the old man forth, he is return'd. |
| King Lear | KL IV.iii.37.1 | Was this before the King returned? | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.67 | My herald is returned. | My Herald is return'd. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iv.2 | Are not those in commission yet returned? | Or not those in Commission yet return'd? |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.163 | the Duke we talk of were returned again. This | the Duke we talke of were return'd againe: this |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.168 | them to light. Would he were returned. Marry, this | them to light: would hee were return'd. Marrie this |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.34 | I pray you, is my master yet returned? | I pray you it my Master yet rnturn'd? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.116.1 | Are they returned? | Are they return'd? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.272 | And even but now returned, I have not yet | And but eu'n now return'd: I haue not yet |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.172 | And now to Helen is it home returned, | And now to Helen it is home return'd, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.28 | I pray you, is Signor Mountanto returned from | I pray you, is Signior Mountanto return'd from |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.34 | O, he's returned, and as pleasant as ever he | O he's return'd, and as pleasant as euer he |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.189 | is returned to seek you. | is returned to seeke you. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.280 | But now I am returned and that war-thoughts | But now I am return'd, and that warre-thoughts |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.227 | Outran my purpose and I returned the rather | Out-ran my purpose: and I return'd then rather |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.189 | and returned me expectations and comforts of sudden respect | and return'd me expectations and comforts of sodaine respect, |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.7 | Get you to bed on th' instant. I will be returned | Get you to bed on th'instant, I will be return'd |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.87 | you up. Boult's returned. | you vp: Boults returnd. |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.56 | Which else would post until it had returned | Which else would post, vntill it had return'd |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.89 | To all his lands and signories. When he is returned | To all his Lands and Seignories: when hee's return'd, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.252 | Returned my letter back. Then all alone | Return'd my Letter backe. Then all alone, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.98 | Mars's hot minion is returned again; | Marses hot Minion is returnd againe, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.ii.86 | And the best half should have returned to him, | And the best halfe should haue return'd to him, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.38 | lordship that I returned you an empty messenger. | Lordship, that I return'd you an empty Messenger. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.33 | Our enemies' pride. Five times he hath returned | Our Enemies pride. Fiue times he hath return'd |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.70 | With honour and with fortune is returned | With Honour and with Fortune is return'd, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.272 | Till all these mischiefs be returned again | Till all these mischiefes be returned againe, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.111 | That Paris is returned home, and hurt. | That Paris is returned home, and hurt. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.187 | To have her back returned; thus to persist | To haue her backe return'd. Thus to persist |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.ii.14 | her will is it should be so returned. If it be worth stooping | her will is, it should be so return'd: If it bee worth stooping |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.58 | Orsino's is returned. I could hardly entreat him back. He | Orsino's is return'd, I could hardly entreate him backe: he |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.46 | There take the paper. See it be returned, | There: take the paper: see it be return'd, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.66 | Your two contending lovers are returned, | Your two contending Lovers are return'd, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.91 | Are they returned to the court? | Are they returned to the Court? |