| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iii.50 | Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo | Nor did not with vnbashfull forehead woe, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.71 | Come, you virtuous ass, you bashful | Come you pernitious Asse, you bashfull |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.41 | And bashful Henry deposed, whose cowardice | And bashfull Henry depos'd, whose Cowardize |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.286 | No touch of bashfulness? What, will you tear | No touch of bashfulnesse? What, will you teare |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.52 | Bashful sincerity and comely love. | Bashfull sinceritie and comely loue. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.326 | Make bold her bashful years with your experience; | Make bold her bashfull yeares, with your experience, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.49 | Her affability and bashful modesty, | Her affability and bashfull modestie: |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.81 | The bigger bulk it shows. Hence, bashful cunning! | The bigger bulke it shewes. Hence bashfull cunning, |