| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.323 | Thou shamest to acknowledge me in misery. | Thou sham'st to acknowledge me in miserie. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.201 | with most weak hams; all which, sir, though I most | with weake Hammes. All which Sir, though I most |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.200 | With Somerset's and Buckingham's ambition; | With Somersets and Buckinghams Ambition, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.142 | Shamest thou not, knowing whence thou art extraught, | Sham'st thou not, knowing whence thou art extraught, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.115 | The Duke of Buckingham's surveyor, ha? | The Duke of Buckinghams Surueyor? Ha? |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.5 | That gentleman of Buckingham's. In person | That Gentleman of Buckinghams, in person, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.78 | Sham'st thou to show thy dangerous brow by night, | Sham'st thou to shew thy dang'rous Brow by Night, |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.100 | French knight, that cowers i'the hams? | French knight, that cowres ethe hams? |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iii.38 | The sons of Edward sleep in Abraham's bosom, | The Sonnes of Edward sleepe in Abrahams bosome, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.511 | Buckingham's army is dispersed and scattered, | Buckinghams Armie is dispers'd and scatter'd, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.52 | constrains a man to bow in the hams. | constrains a man to bow in the hams. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.23 | If good, thou shamest the music of sweet news | If good thou sham'st the musicke of sweet newes, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.122 | Fie, fie, thou shamest thy shape, thy love, thy wit, | Fie, fie, thou sham'st thy shape, thy loue, thy wit, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.154 | Lies in his hamstring, and doth think it rich | Lies in his Ham-string, and doth thinke it rich |