| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.94 | Do their gay vestments his affections bait? | Doe their gay vestments his affections baite? |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.58.1 | But worn a bait for ladies. | But worne a Baite for Ladies. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.63 | Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth, | Your bait of falshood, takes this Cape of truth; |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.319 | the young dace be a bait for the old pike, I see no | the young Dace be a Bayt for the old Pike, I see no |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.148 | Are these thy bears? We'll bait thy bears to death, | Are these thy Beares? Wee'l bate thy Bears to death, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.28.2 | Brutus, bait not me; | Brutus, baite not me, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.181 | With saints dost bait thy hook. Most dangerous | With Saints dost bait thy hooke: most dangerous |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.101 | But fish not with this melancholy bait | But fish not with this melancholly baite |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.48 | To bait fish withal. If it will feed nothing else, | To baite fish withall, if it will feede nothing else, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.197 | To bait me with this foul derision? | To baite me, with this foule derision? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.110 | Bait the hook well; | Baite the hooke well, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.28 | And greedily devour the treacherous bait; | And greedily deuoure the treacherous baite: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.33 | Of the false sweet bait that we lay for it. | Of the false sweete baite that we lay for it: |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.237 | Whilst that my wretchedness doth bait myself, | Whil'st that my wretchednesse doth bait my selfe, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.chorus.8 | And she steal love's sweet bait from fearful hooks. | And she steale Loues sweet bait from fearefull hookes: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.92 | When as the one is wounded with the bait, | When as the one is wounded with the baite, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.viii.20 | Pleased with this dainty bait, thus goes to bed. | Pleas'd with this dainty bed; thus goes to bed. |