| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iii.40 | Which I did store to be my foster-nurse | Which I did store to be my foster Nurse, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.113 | One bred of alms, and fostered with cold dishes, | One, bred of Almes, and foster'd with cold dishes, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.106 | Where thou wast fostered in thine infancy! | Where thou was fostred in thine infancy: |
| King John | KJ V.ii.75 | That, like a lion fostered up at hand, | That like a Lion fostered vp at hand, |
| King Lear | KL IV.iv.12 | Our foster-nurse of nature is repose, | Our foster Nurse of Nature, is repose, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.218 | body's fostering patron – | bodies fostring patrone: |
| Pericles | Per II.v.91 | Even as my life my blood that fosters it. | Euen as my life, my blood that fosters it. |
| Pericles | Per IV.iii.15 | To foster is not ever to preserve. | to foster it, not euer to preserue, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.126 | With that dear blood which it hath fostered, | With that deere blood which it hath fostered, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.153 | Some say that ravens foster forlorn children | Some say, that Rauens foster forlorne children, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.184 | Fostered, illumined, cherished, kept alive. | Foster'd, illumin'd, cherish'd, kept aliue. |