| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.vii.15.1 | 'Tis sport to maul a runner. | 'Tis sport to maul a Runner. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.iii.1 | Forspent with toil, as runners with a race, | Fore-spent with Toile, as Runners with a Race, |
| King John | KJ II.i.2 | Arthur, that great forerunner of thy blood, | Arthur that great fore-runner of thy bloud, |
| 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 |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.117 | There comes with them a forerunner, my lord, | There comes with them a fore-runner my Lord, |