| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.13 | Those bated that inherit but the fall | (Those bated that inherit but the fall |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.132 | As most abated captives to some nation | As most abated Captiues, to some Nation |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.61 | When he the ambitious Norway combated. | When th'Ambitious Norwey combatted: |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.137 | A sword unbated, and, in a pass of practice, | A Sword vnbaited, and in a passe of practice, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.23 | That on the supervise, no leisure bated, | That on the superuize no leasure bated, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.311 | Unbated and envenomed. The foul practice | Vnbated and envenom'd: the foule practise |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.99 | Bated, like eagles having lately bathed, | Bayted like Eagles, hauing lately bath'd, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.26 | In general journey-bated and brought low. | In generall iourney bated, and brought low: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.117 | Which once in him abated, all the rest | Which once, in him abated, all the rest |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.i.35 | Have been considered and debated on. | Haue bin consider'd and debated on, |
| King John | KJ V.iv.53 | And like a bated and retired flood, | And like a bated and retired Flood, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.154 | She hath abated me of half my train, | She hath abated me of halfe my Traine; |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.121 | With bated breath and whispering humbleness, | With bated breath, and whispring humblenesse, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vi.11 | His tedious measures with the unbated fire | His tedious measures with the vnbated fire, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iii.32 | These griefs and losses have so bated me | These greefes and losses haue so bated mee, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.190 | Were the world mine, Demetrius being bated, | Were the world mine, Demetrius being bated, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.3 | Upon the error that you heard debated; | Vpon the errour that you heard debated: |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.48 | I cannot be bated one doit of a thousand pieces. | I cannot be bated one doit of a thousand peeces. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.86 | Of my instruction hast thou nothing bated | Of my Instruction, hast thou nothing bated |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.20 | These quarrels must be quietly debated. | These quarrels must be quietly debated, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.92 | she is in, which is with falsehoods to be combated. This | / She is in, which is with fasehoods to be combated. / This |