| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.v.33 | There would he anchor his aspect, and die | There would he anchor his Aspect, and dye |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.394 | Posthumus anchors upon Innogen; | Posthumus Anchors vpon Imogen; |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.229 | An anchor's cheer in prison be my scope, | |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.9 | For whilst our pinnace anchors in the Downs | For whilst our Pinnace Anchors in the Downes, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.4 | The cable broke, the holding-anchor lost, | The Cable broke, the holding-Anchor lost, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.13 | Say Warwick was our anchor; what of that? | Say Warwicke was our Anchor: what of that? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.16 | Why, is not Oxford here another anchor? | Why is not Oxford here, another Anchor? |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.86 | Did break from anchor straight, and, puffed with rage | Did breake from Anchor straight, and puft with rage, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.18 | Appear like mice, and yon tall anchoring bark, | Appeare like Mice: and yond tall Anchoring Barke, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.4 | Anchors on Isabel: God in my mouth, | Anchors on Isabell: heauen in my mouth, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.47 | The anchor is deep. Will that humour pass? | The Anchor is deepe: will that humor passe? |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.V.16 | Suppose him now at anchor. The city strived | Suppose him now at Anchor: the Citie striu'de |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.26 | Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, | Wedges of Gold, great Anchors, heapes of Pearle, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.232 | Till that my nails were anchored in thine eyes; | Till that my Nayles were anchor'd in thine eyes: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.76 | From whence at first she weighed her anchorage, | From whence at first she wegih'd her Anchorage: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.38 | Then is all safe, the anchor in the port. | Then is all safe, the Anchor's in the Port. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.118 | To cast up with a pair of anchoring hooks, | To cast vp, with a paire of anchoring hookes, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.213 | You had much ado to make his anchor hold: | You had much adoe to make his Anchor hold, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.567 | Nothing so certain as your anchors, who | Nothing so certaine, as your Anchors, who |