| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iii.39 | The thrifty hire I saved under your father, | The thriftie hire I saued vnder your Father, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.i.96 | A ship you sent me to, to hire waftage. | A ship you sent me too, to hier waftage. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.38 | Or all or lose his hire. | Or all, or loose his hyre. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.147 | As if I had received them for the hire | As if I had receiu'd them for the hyre |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.113 | Than crave the hire which first we do deserve. | Then craue the higher, which first we do deserue. |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.129 | There, take thy hire, and all the fiends of hell | There, take thy hyre, and all the Fiends of Hell |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.79 | Why, this is hire and salary, not revenge. | Oh this is hyre and Sallery, not Reuenge. |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.100 | May it be possible that foreign hire | May it be possible, that forraigne hyer |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.225 | Give thee thy hire and send thy soul to hell, | Giue thee thy hyre, and send thy Soule to Hell, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.36 | 'Tis strange: a threepence bowed would hire me, | Tis strange; a threepence bow'd would hire me |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.95 | Let me hire him too. Here's my coxcomb. | Let me hire him too, here's my Coxcombe. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.77 | Should fall as Jacob's hire, the ewes being rank, | Should fall as Iacobs hier, the Ewes being rancke, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.245 | great letters as they write ‘ Here is good horse to hire,’ | great Letters as they write, heere is good horse to hire: |
| Othello | Oth I.i.126 | But with a knave of common hire, a gondolier, | But with a knaue of common hire, a Gundelier, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.259 | Your country's fat shall pay your pains the hire; | Your Countries Fat shall pay your paines the hyre. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.ii.2 | Sirrah, go hire me twenty cunning cooks. | Sirrah, go hire me twenty cunning Cookes. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.26 | And hire post-horses. I will hence tonight. | And hire Post-Horses, I will hence to night. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.33 | And hire those horses. I'll be with thee straight. | And hyre those Horses, Ile be with thee straight. |