| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iii.56 | of a bachelor; and by how much defence is better than | of a Batcheller: and by how much defence is better then |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.26 | writ man ever since his father was a bachelor. He may | writ man euer since his Father was a Batchellour. He may |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.213 | moiety take the word of a king and a bachelor. How | moytie, take the Word of a King, and a Batcheler. How |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.103 | And, by God's mother, I, being but a bachelor, | And by Gods Mother, I being but a Batchelor, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.iii.8 | Are you a married man or a bachelor? | Are you a married man, or a Batchellor? |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.iii.14 | do I dwell? Am I a married man or a bachelor? Then to | do I dwell? Am I a married man, or a Batchellour? Then to |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.iii.16 | wisely I say, I am a bachelor. | wisely I say, I am a Batchellor. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.3 | If the man be a bachelor, sir, I can; but if he be a | If the man be a Bachelor Sir, I can: / But if he be a |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.112 | bachelor. I would not have given it for a wilderness of | Batcheler: I would not haue giuen it for a wildernesse of |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.65 | Becomes a virtuous bachelor and a maid, | Becomes a vertuous batchelour, and a maide, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.186 | I never see a bachelor of three score again? Go to, i'faith; | I neuer see a batcheller of three score againe? goe to yfaith, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.227 | will live a bachelor. | will liue a Batchellor. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.235 | be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did | be peopled. When I said I would die a batcheler, I did |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.100 | A bachelor and a handsome stripling too! | A Batcheller, and a handsome stripling too, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.112.2 | Marry, bachelor, | Marrie Batcheler, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.67 | Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves, | Whose shadow the dismissed Batchelor loues, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.491 | I would not part a bachelor from the priest. | I would not part a Batchellour from the Priest. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.ii.29 | He was a bachelor then. | He was a Batchellor then. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.85 | Stale gravity to dance; the polled bachelor, | Stale gravitie to daunce, the pould Bachelour |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.117 | Would have him die a bachelor, lest his race | Would have him die a Batchelour, least his race |