| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.105.1 | My very heart at root. | My very heart at roote. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.31 | Under an oak whose antick root peeps out | Vnder an oake, whose anticke roote peepes out |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.178 | A curse begnaw at very root on's heart | A Curse begin at very root on's heart, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.106 | A root of ancient envy. If Jupiter | A roote of Ancient Enuy. If Iupiter |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.i.28 | I cannot delve him to the root: his father | I cannot delue him to the roote: His Father |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.60 | His perishing root, with the increasing vine! | His perishing roote, with the encreasing Vine. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.87 | Which should not find a ground to root upon | Which should not finde a ground to roote vpon, |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.46 | Doth root upon, while that the coulter rusts | Doth root vpon; while that the Culter rusts, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.85 | Spring crestless yeomen from so deep a root? | Spring Crestlesse Yeomen from so deepe a Root? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.48 | I'll plant Plantagenet, root him up who dares. | Ile plant Plantagenet, root him vp who dares: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iii.32 | And till I root out their accursed line | And till I root out their accursed Line, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.165 | We set the axe to thy usurping root; | We set the Axe to thy vsurping Roote: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.49 | But set his murdering knife unto the root | But set his murth'ring knife vnto the Roote, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.125 | Whereof the root was fixed in virtue's ground, | Whereof the Root was fixt in Vertues ground, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.87 | We should take root here where we sit, | We should take roote here, where we sit; |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.97 | And though we leave it with a root, thus hacked, | And though we leaue it with a roote thus hackt, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.357 | His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, | His Greatnesse is a ripening, nippes his roote, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.53 | And we must root him out. From your affairs | And we must root him out. From your Affaires |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.420 | When poison hath encompassed the root; | When poyson hath encompassed the roote: |
| King Edward III | E3 III.ii.47 | Sweet flow'ring peace, the root of happy life, | Sweete flowring peace the roote of happie life, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.83 | Or have we eaten on the insane root | Or haue we eaten on the insane Root, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.5 | But that myself should be the root and father | But that my selfe should be the Roote, and Father |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.25 | Root of hemlock digged i'the dark, | Roote of Hemlocke, digg'd i'th' darke: |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.95 | Unfix his earth-bound root? Sweet bodements! Good! | Vnfixe his earth-bound Root? Sweet boadments, good: |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.85 | Sticks deeper, grows with more pernicious root | stickes deeper: growes with more pernicious roote |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.i.50 | And that's a good root. | And that's a good roote. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.iii.22 | take true root but by the fair weather that you make | take root, but by the faire weather that you make |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.13 | Or seven fair branches springing from one root. | Or seuen faire branches springing from one roote: |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.18 | One flourishing branch of his most royal root, | One flourishing branch of his most Royall roote |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.37 | You thus employed, I will go root away | You thus imploy'd, I will goe root away |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.52 | Are plucked up, root and all, by Bolingbroke – | Are pull'd vp, Root and all, by Bullingbrooke: |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.41 | Why grow the branches when the root is gone? | Why grow the Branches, when the Roote is gone? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.70 | Rich men sin, and I eat root. | Richmen sin, and I eat root. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.132 | As this pomp shows to a little oil and root. | As this pompe shewes to a little oyle and roote. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.187 | From forth thy plenteous bosom, one poor root. | From foorth thy plenteous bosome, one poore roote: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.193 | Never presented. – O, a root! Dear thanks! – | Neuer presented. O, a Root, deare thankes: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.284 | He eats a root | |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.131 | Be as a cantherizing to the root o'th' tongue, | Be as a Cantherizing to the root o'th'Tongue, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.163 | Who like a boar too savage doth root up | Who like a Bore too sauage, doth root vp |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.49 | And rape, I fear, was root of thy annoy. | And rape I feare was roote of thine annoy. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.53 | or my heart will be blown up by the root. | or my heart will be blowne vp by the root. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.160 | Disdain to root the summer-swelling flower | Disdaine to roote the Sommer-swelling flowre, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.104 | How oft hast thou with perjury cleft the root! | How oft hast thou with periury cleft the roote? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.v.28 | Will take more root within him. Let him do | Will take more root within him: Let him doe |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.89 | The root of his opinion, which is rotten | The Root of his Opinion, which is rotten, |