| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.125 | shrive me than wive me. Come, Nerissa. Sirrah, go | shriue me then wiue me. Come Nerrissa, sirra go |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.64 | And bid me, when my fate would have me wive, | And bid me (when my Fate would haue me Wiu'd) |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.55 | Haply to wive and thrive as best I may. | Happily to wiue and thriue, as best I may: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.74 | I come to wive it wealthily in Padua; | I come to wiue it wealthily in Padua: |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.394 | But when I came, alas, to wive, | But when I came alas to wiue, |