| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xi.17 | Sweep your way for you. Pray you, look not sad, | Sweepe your way for you. Pray you looke not sad, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.55 | ‘ Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens, | Sweepe on you fat and greazie Citizens, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.31.1 | May sweep to my revenge. | May sweepe to my Reuenge. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.205 | They bear the mandate. They must sweep my way | |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.6 | And like a peacock sweep along his tail; | And like a Peacock sweepe along his tayle, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.75 | Thy lips that kissed the Queen shall sweep the ground; | Thy lips that kist the Queene, shall sweepe the ground: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vii.28 | besom that must sweep the court clean of such filth | Beesome that must sweepe the Court cleane of such filth |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iv.13 | Unless we sweep 'em from the door with cannons, | Vnlesse wee sweepe 'em from the dore with Cannons, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.118 | With bare-faced power sweep him from my sight | With bare-fac'd power sweepe him from my sight, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.23 | Sever themselves and madly sweep the sky – | Seuer themselues, and madly sweepe the skye: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.120 | With ears that sweep away the morning dew; | With eares that sweepe away the morning dew, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.380 | To sweep the dust behind the door. | To sweep the dust behinde the doore. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.129 | Hoyday, what a sweep of vanity comes this way! | Hoyday, / What a sweepe of vanitie comes this way. |