| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| 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, |
| 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: |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.131 | (aside) Iago beckons me. Now he begins the | Iago becomes me: now he begins the |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.77 | With one man beckoned from the rest below, | With one man becken'd from the rest below, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.53 | Beckoning with fiery truncheon my retire; | Beckning with fierie trunchion my retire; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.128 | The galled traveller, and with a beckoning | The gauled Traveller, and with a beckning |