| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.65 | Deny your asking. Take your choice of those | Deny your asking, take your choice of those |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.84 | In asking their good loves; but thou wilt frame | In asking their good loues, but thou wilt frame |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.46 | That shall not be my offer, not thy asking? | That shall not be my Offer, not thy Asking? |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.45 | eyes; when I shall, first asking your pardon thereunto, | Eyes. When I shall (first asking your Pardon thereunto) |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.ii.50 | How showed his tasking? Seemed it in contempt? | How shew'd his Talking? Seem'd it in contempt? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.355 | And asking every one for Sir John Falstaff. | And asking euery one for Sir Iohn Falstaffe. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.44 | He, on his right, asking a wife for Edward. | He on his right, asking a wife for Edward. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.163 | For not bestowing on him at his asking | For not bestowing on him at his asking, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.52 | Not your demand; it values not your asking. | Not your demand; it values not your asking: |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.7 | Masking, as 'twere, the beauteous burning sun, | Masking as twere the beautious burning Sunne, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.124 | Masking the business from the common eye | Masking the Businesse from the common Eye, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vi.59 | Our masquing mates by this time for us stay. | Our masking mates by this time for vs stay. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.vi.30 | While other sports are tasking of their minds, | While other sports are tasking of their mindes, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.60 | (unmasking) | |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.73 | (unmasking) | |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.ii.77 | Now I'll tell you without asking. My master is | Now Ile tell you without asking. My maister is |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.87 | O mercy, God! What masquing stuff is here? | Oh mercie God, what masking stuffe is heere? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.i.122 | married my daughter without asking my good will? | married my daughter without asking my good will? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.244 | Ajax goes up and down the field, asking for | Aiax goes vp and downe the field, asking for |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.208 | That honour saved may upon asking give? | That honour (sau'd) may vpon asking giue. |