| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.ii.82 | But heaviness foreruns the good event. | But heauinesse fore-runnes the good euent. |
| King John | KJ II.i.2 | Arthur, that great forerunner of thy blood, | Arthur that great fore-runner of thy bloud, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.356 | Forerun fair Love, strewing her way with flowers. | Fore-runne faire Loue, strewing her way with flowres. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.8.1 | Forerunning more requital. | Forerunning more requitall. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.118 | take their leave, and there is a forerunner come from a | take their leaue: and there is a fore-runner come from a |
| Richard II | R2 II.iv.15 | These signs forerun the death or fall of kings. | These signes fore-run the death of Kings. |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.28 | Against a change. Woe is forerun with woe. | Against a Change; Woe is fore-runne with Woe. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.53 | O, this same thought did but forerun my need, | O this same thought did but fore-run my need, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.117 | There comes with them a forerunner, my lord, | There comes with them a fore-runner my Lord, |