| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.154 | Shall weigh thee to the beam; that wilt not know | Shall weigh thee to the beame: That wilt not know, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.34 | In me at once. But to the brightest beams | In me at once: But to the brightest beames |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.31 | But creep in crannies when he hides his beams. | But creepe in crannies, when he hides his beames: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.56 | For gazing on your beams, fair sun, being by. | For gazing on your beames faire sun being by. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.5 | Below the beam of sight, yet will I still | Below the beame of sight; yet will I still |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.350 | There vanished in the sunbeams, which portends – | There vanish'd in the Sun-beames, which portends |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iv.42 | The benefit of his blest beams, remaining | The benefit of his blest Beames, remaining |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.473 | Lessened herself and in the beams o' the sun | Lessen'd her selfe, and in the Beames o'th'Sun |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.159 | Till our scale turn the beam. O rose of May, | Till our Scale turnes the beame. Oh Rose of May, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.10 | His brandished sword did blind men with his beams; | His brandisht Sword did blinde men with his beames, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.63 | Twinkling another counterfeited beam, | Twinkling another counterfetted beame, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.87 | May never glorious sun reflex his beams | May neuer glorious Sunne reflex his beames |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.200 | Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails. | Whose Beame stands sure, whose rightful cause preuailes. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.223 | Free lords, cold snow melts with the sun's hot beams: | Free Lords: / Cold Snow melts with the Sunnes hot Beames: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.353 | Like to the glorious sun's transparent beams, | Like to the glorious Sunnes transparant Beames, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.62 | Dark cloudy death o'ershades his beams of life, | Darke cloudy death ore-shades his beames of life, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iii.12 | The very beams will dry those vapours up, | Thy very Beames will dry those Vapours vp, |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.89 | Cast thousand beams upon me, like the sun? | Cast thousand beames vpon me, like the Sun? |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.129 | Will serve to strangle thee; a rush will be a beam | Will serue to strangle thee: A rush will be a beame |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.162 | That by thy comfortable beams I may | That by thy comfortable Beames I may |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.26 | As thy eye-beams when their fresh rays have smote | As thy eye beames, when their fresh rayse haue smot. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.160 | But I a beam do find in each of three. | But I a Beame doe finde in each of three. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.169 | Once to behold with your sun-beamed eyes – | Once to behold with your Sunne beamed eyes, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.170 | With your sun-beamed eyes – | With your Sunne beamed eyes. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.172 | You were best call it ‘ daughter-beamed eyes.’ | You were best call it Daughter beamed eyes. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.90 | How far that little candle throws his beams! | How farre that little candell throwes his beames, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.56 | Sometimes the beam of her view gilded my foot, | sometimes the beame of her view, guilded my foote: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.i.21 | weaver's beam, because I know also life is a shuttle. I | Weauers beame, because I know also, life is a Shuttle) I |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.162 | Quenched in the chaste beams of the watery moon, | Quencht in the chaste beames of the watry Moone; |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.168 | To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes. | To fan the Moone-beames from his sleeping eies. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.392 | Opening on Neptune with fair blessed beams | Opening on Neptune, with faire blessed beames, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.264 | Sweet moon, I thank thee for thy sunny beams; | Sweet Moone, I thank thee for thy sunny beames, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.266 | For by thy gracious, golden, glittering beams | For by thy gracious, golden, glittering beames, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.323 | in our wills. If the beam of our lives had not one scale | in our Wills. If the braine of our liues had not one Scale |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.146 | And those his golden beams to you here lent | And those his golden beames to you heere lent, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.267 | Whose bright outshining beams thy cloudy wrath | Whose bright out-shining beames, thy cloudy wrath |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.65 | Her collars, of the moonshine's watery beams; | her coullers of the Moonshines watry Beames, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.5 | Which ten times faster glides than the sun's beams, | Which ten times faster glides then the Sunnes beames, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.133 | Which end o'th' beam should bow. We have lost your son, | Which end o'th' beame should bow: we haue lost your son, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.221 | Sun, hide thy beams. Timon hath done his reign. | Sunne, hide thy Beames, Timon hath done his Raigne. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.6 | And, having gilt the ocean with his beams, | And hauing gilt the Ocean with his beames, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.v.9 | And stands colossus-wise, waving his beam, | And stands Calossus-wise wauing his beame, |