| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.214 | The great man down, you mark his favourite flies. | The great man downe, you marke his fauourites flies, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.86 | Of all the favourites that the absent King | Of all the Fauorites, that the absent King |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.ii.25 | As a false favourite doth his prince's name, | As a false Fauorite doth his Princes Name, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.190 | This factious bandying of their favourites, | This factious bandying of their Fauourites, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.56 | On him, his sons, his favourites, and his friends. | On him, his sonnes, his fauorites, and his friends. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.9 | Forbid the sun to enter – like favourites, | Forbid the sunne to enter: like fauourites, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.88 | Ye favourites of a King. Are we not high? | Ye Fauorites of a King: are wee not high? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.55 | To such a favourite's glass? What canon is there | To such a Favorites glasse: What Cannon is there |