| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.280 | Which should sustain the bound and high curvet | Which should sustaine the bound and high curuet |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iii.17.1 | Will not sustain it. | Will not sustaine it. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xi.45 | Well then, sustain me. O! | Well then, sustaine me: Oh. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.112 | and I doubt not you sustain what you're | and I doubt not you sustaine what y'are |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.29 | Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain | Then weigh what losse your Honour may sustaine, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.39 | To do them good I would sustain some harm. | To doe them good, I would sustayne some harme. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.5 | But that you shall sustain moe new disgraces | But that you shall sustaine moe new disgraces, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.329 | If she sustain him and his hundred knights | If she sustaine him, and his hundred Knights |
| King Lear | KL III.iii.5 | speak of him, entreat for him, or any way sustain him. | speake of him, entreat for him, or any way sustaine him. |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.318 | Rule in this realm, and the gored state sustain. | Rule in this Realme, and the gor'd state sustaine. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.373 | That doth sustain my house. You take my life | That doth sustaine my house: you take my life |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.258 | A better never did itself sustain | A better neuer did it selfe sustaine |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.199 | That nature's fragile vessel doth sustain | That Natures fragile Vessell doth sustaine |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.167 | taken great pains to con it. Good beauties, let me sustain | taken great paines to con it. Good Beauties, let mee sustaine |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.125 | Your need to sustain. | your neede to sustaine. |