| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.46 | By what did here befall me. Your wife and brother | By what did heere befall me. Your Wife and Brother |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.124 | What hath befallen of them and thee till now. | What haue befalne of them and they till now. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.208 | Today did dine together. So befall my soul | To day did dine together: so befall my soule, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.9 | Madam, all joy befall your grace, and you! | Madam, all ioy befall your Grace, and you. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iii.11.2 | How now? What hath befallen? | How now? What hath befalne? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.177 | The stiff-borne action. What hath then befallen, | The stiffe-borne Action: What hath then befalne? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.vi.10 | More blessed hap did ne'er befall our state. | More blessed hap did ne're befall our State. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.115 | And peace, no war, befall thy parting soul! | And Peace, no Warre, befall thy parting Soule. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.33 | What shall befall the Duke of Somerset? | What shall befall the Duke of Somerset? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.65 | What shall befall the Duke of Somerset? | What shall betide the Duke of Somerset? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.402 | O, let me stay, befall what may befall! | Oh let me stay, befall what may befall. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.iii.33 | And more such days as these to us befall! | And more such dayes as these, to vs befall. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.106 | I come to tell you things sith then befallen. | I come to tell you things sith then befalne. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.76 | What danger or what sorrow can befall thee, | What danger, or what sorrow can befall thee, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iv.3 | What late misfortune is befallen King Edward? | What late misfortune is befalne King Edward? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vi.95 | What may befall him, to his harm and ours. | What may befall him, to his harme and ours. |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.96 | Let's reason with the worst that may befall. | Let's reason with the worst that may befall. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.23 | Befall my sovereign all my sovereign's wish! | Befall my soueraigne, all my soueraignes wish, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.859 | A twelvemonth? Well, befall what will befall, | A tweluemonth? Well: befall what will befall, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.i.58 | What doth befall you here. So fare you well. | What doth befall you here. So fare you well: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.63 | The worst that may befall me in this case | The worst that may befall me in this case, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.121 | That befall preposterously. | That befall preposterously. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.153 | In this same interlude it doth befall | In this same Interlude, it doth befall, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.292 | could heartily wish this had not so befallen: but since | could hartily wish this had not befalne: but since |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.304 | Sir, you shall understand what hath befallen, | Sir, / You shall vnderstand what hath befalne, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.20 | Many years of happy days befall | Many yeares of happy dayes befall |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.129 | Whom fair befall in heaven 'mongst happy souls – | (Whom faire befall in heauen 'mongst happy soules) |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.281 | Now fair befall thee and thy noble house! | Now faire befall thee, and thy Noble house: |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.16 | That had befallen us. As we paced along | That had befalne vs. As we pac'd along |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.46 | Now fair befall you! He deserved his death, | Now faire befall you, he deseru'd his death, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.110 | Now fair befall thee, good Petruchio! | Now faire befall thee good Petruchio; |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.57 | If thou wilt not, befall what may befall, | If thou wilt not, befall what may befall, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.3 | And ours with thine, befall what fortune will. | And ours with thine befall, what Fortune will. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iii.8 | But jealousy what might befall your travel, | But iealousie, what might befall your rrauell, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.328 | Than what befalls myself. You stand amazed; | Then what befals my selfe: you stand amaz'd, |