| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.197 | O for my beads! I cross me for a sinner. | Oh for my beads, I crosse me for a sinner. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.60 | That beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow | That beds of sweate hath stood vpon thy Brow, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iv.1.1 | Enter Beadles dragging in Hostess Quickly and Doll | Enter Hostesse Quickly, Dol Teare-sheete, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iv.1.2 | Tearsheet | and Beadles |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.164 | wings to fly from God. War is His beadle, war is His | wings to flye from God. Warre is his Beadle, Warre is his |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.27 | In courtly company or at my beads, | In Courtly company, or at my Beades, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.54 | To number Ave-Maries on his beads; | To number Aue-Maries on his Beades: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.134 | beadles in your town, and things called whips? | Beadles in your Towne, / And Things call'd Whippes? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.137 | Sirrah, go fetch the beadle hither straight. | Sirrha, goe fetch the Beadle hither straight. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.143 | Enter a Beadle with whips | Enter a Beadle with Whippes. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.144 | Sirrah beadle, whip him till he leap over that same | Sirrha Beadle, whippe him till he leape ouer that same |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.150.1 | After the Beadle hath hit him once, he leaps over the | After the Beadle hath hit him once, he leapes ouer the |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.155.2 | and the Beadle dragging Simpcox's Wife | |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.161 | Numbering our Ave-Maries with our beads? | Numb'ring our Aue-Maries with our Beads? |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iv.65 | beadles that is to come. | Beadles, that is to come. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.284 | Seeing those beads of sorrow stand in thine, | Seeing those Beads of sorrow stand in thine, |
| King John | KJ II.i.171 | Ay, with these crystal beads heaven shall be bribed | I, with these Christall beads heauen shall be brib'd |
| King John | KJ II.i.188 | Her injury the beadle to her sin, | Her iniurie the Beadle to her sinne, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.161 | Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody hand. | Thou, Rascall Beadle, hold thy bloody hand: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.172 | A very beadle to a humorous sigh, | A verie Beadle to a humerous sigh: A Criticke, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.49 | Where's Bead? Go you, and where you find a maid | Wher's Bede? Go you, and where you find a maid |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.330.1 | You bead, you acorn. | You bead, you acorne. |
| Pericles | Per II.i.93 | office than to be beadle. But, master, I'll go draw up the | office, then to be Beadle: But Maister, Ile goe draw vp the |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.116 | Thy very beadsmen learn to bend their bows | Thy very Beads-men learne to bend their Bowes |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.147 | I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, | Ile giue my Iewels for a sett of Beades, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.92 | Are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence, | Are at their Beades, 'tis much to draw them thence, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.58 | With amber bracelets, beads, and all this knavery. | With Amber Bracelets, Beades, and all this knau'ry. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.400 | With tosspots still had drunken heads, | With tospottes still had drunken beades, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.18 | For I will be thy beadsman, Valentine. | For I will be thy beades-man, Valentine. |