| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xi.60 | Thy beck might from the bidding of the gods | Thy becke, might from the bidding of the Gods |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xii.26 | Whose eye becked forth my wars, and called them home, | Whose eye beck'd forth my Wars, & cal'd them home: |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.58 | The Ghost beckons him | Ghost beckens Hamlet. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.58 | It beckons you to go away with it, | It beckons you to goe away with it, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.125 | ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I | Ambitious, with more offences at my becke, then I |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.92 | He beckons with his hand and smiles on me, | He beckens with his hand, and smiles on me: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.68 | And they have troops of soldiers at their beck? | And they haue troupes of Souldiers at their beck? |
| King John | KJ III.iii.13 | When gold and silver becks me to come on. | When gold and siluer becks me to come on. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vii.67 | A limbeck only. When in swinish sleep | A Lymbeck onely: when in Swinish sleepe, |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.131 | (aside) Iago beckons me. Now he begins the | Iago becomes me: now he begins the |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.132 | Pretty! What say you, Hugh Rebeck? | Pratest, what say you Hugh Rebicke? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.33 | Each in his office ready at thy beck. | Each in his office readie at thy becke. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.77 | With one man beckoned from the rest below, | With one man becken'd from the rest below, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.236 | Serving of becks and jutting-out of bums! | seruing of beckes, and iutting out of bummes. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.53 | Beckoning with fiery truncheon my retire; | Beckning with fierie trunchion my retire; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.116 | The becking of our chance. | The becking of our chance. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.128 | The galled traveller, and with a beckoning | The gauled Traveller, and with a beckning |