| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.129 | Wake, and find nothing. But, alas, I swerve: | Wake, and finde nothing. But (alas) I swerue: |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.101 | this further charge: that you swerve not from the smallest | this further charge; / That you swerue not from the smallest |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.182 | If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, | If I be false, or swerue a haire from truth, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.371 | That ever made eye swerve, had force and knowledge | That euer made eye swerue, had force and knowledge |