| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.2 | It is a nipping and an eager air. | It is a nipping and an eager ayre. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.69 | And curd, like eager droppings into milk, | And curd, like Aygre droppings into Milke, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.38 | And hunger will enforce them to be more eager. | And hunger will enforce them to be more eager: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.3 | And all my followers to the eager foe | And all my followers, to the eager foe |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.68 | If so thou thinkest, vex him with eager words. | If so thou think'st, / Vex him with eager Words. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.25 | With eager rods beyond their city, York; | With eager Rods beyond their Citie Yorke, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.115 | Who, proud of this and eager of revenge, | Who proud of this, and eager of reuenge, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.49 | The bitter clamour of two eager tongues, | The bitter clamour of two eager tongues, |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.37 | With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder. | With eager feeding, food doth choake the feeder: |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.74 | What shrill-voiced suppliant makes this eager cry? | What shrill-voic'd Suppliant, makes this eager cry? |