| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.i.35 | Is twice the other twain. But let us rear | Is twice the other twaine: But let vs reare |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.82 | His legs bestrid the ocean; his reared arm | His legges bestrid the Ocean, his rear'd arme |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.13 | He'll grant the tribute: send th' arrearages, | Hee'le grant the Tribute: send th'Arrerages, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.34 | And keep you in the rear of your affection, | And keepe within the reare of your Affection; |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.305 | the rearward of the fashion, and sung those tunes to the | the rere-ward of the Fashion: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.212 | That was upreared to execution. | That was vprear'd to execution. |
| Henry V | H5 I.chorus.21 | Whose high upreared and abutting fronts | Whose high, vp-reared, and abutting Fronts, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.16 | or the great, or the mighty, or the huge, or the magnanimous, | or the grear, or the mighty, or the huge, or the magnanimous, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.vi.21 | A statelier pyramis to her I'll rear | A statelyer Pyramis to her Ile reare, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.33 | Now in the rearward comes the Duke and his; | Now in the Rereward comes the Duke and his: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.92 | I'll bear them hence; but from their ashes shall be reared | Ile beare them hence: but from their ashes shal be reard |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.34 | Rear up his body; wring him by the nose. | Rere vp his Body, wring him by the Nose. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.171 | His hair upreared, his nostrils stretched with struggling; | His hayre vprear'd, his nostrils stretcht with strugling: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.86 | And rear it in the place your father's stands. | And reare it in the place your Fathers stands. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.30 | Casca, you are the first that rears your hand. | Caska, you are the first that reares your hand. |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.121 | When you are overearnest with your Brutus, | When you are ouer-earnest with your Brutus, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.226 | And Derby in the rearward march behind. | And Darby in the rereward march behind, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.136 | And for her sake do I rear up her boy; | And for her sake I doe reare vp her boy, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.124 | Myself would, on the rearward of reproaches, | My selfe would on the reward of reproaches |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.145 | O, if you raise this house against this house | Oh, if you reare this House, against this House |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.89 | Shall thy old dugs once more a traitor rear? | Shall thy old dugges, once more a Traitor reare? |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.243 | Like high-reared bulwarks, stand before our faces. | Like high rear'd Bulwarkes, stand before our Faces, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.121 | But with a rearward following Tybalt's death, | But which a rere-ward following Tybalts death |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.300 | And when I rear my hand, do you the like, | And when I reare my hand, do you the like |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.540.2 | at the rear of the stage | |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.394 | My lord, to step out of these dreary dumps, | My Lord to step out of these sudden dumps, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.168 | And reared aloft the bloody battle-axe, | And rear'd aloft the bloody Battleaxe, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.187 | And of the paste a coffin I will rear, | And of the Paste a Coffen I will reare, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.6 | Grow in the veins of actions highest reared, | Grow in the veines of actions highest rear'd. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.162 | Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, | Lye there for pauement to the abiect, neere |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.63.1 | Will you fight bare-armed? | Will you fight bare-armd? |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.72 | And our weak spirits ne'er been higher reared | And our weake Spirits ne're been higher rear'd |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.314 | Have benched and reared to worship; who mayst see | Haue Bench'd, and rear'd to Worship, who may'st see |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.191.2 | No, I'll not rear | No: Ile not reare |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.578.1 | She is i'th' rear' our birth. | She is i'th' reare' our Birth. |