| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.35 | For bearers of this greeting to old Norway, | For bearing of this greeting to old Norway, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.46 | He should those bearers put to sudden death, | He should the bearers put to sodaine death, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.30 | When thou dost pinch thy bearer, thou dost sit | When thou do'st pinch thy Bearer, thou do'st sit |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.165 | Hast eat thy bearer up.’ Thus, my most royal liege, | Hast eate the Bearer vp. / Thus (my Royall Liege) |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.15 | It from the bearer, 'tis a sufferance panging | It from the bearer, 'tis a sufferance, panging |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.54 | To be the herald and dear counsel-bearer | To be the herald and deare counsaiie bearer, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.222 | I do not bid the thunder-bearer shoot, | I do not bid the Thunder-bearer shoote, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.58 | Stand aside, good bearer. Boyet, you can carve – | Stand a side good bearer. / Boyet, you can carue, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.iv.5 | We have not spoke us yet of torchbearers. | We haue not spoke vs yet of Torch-bearers. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.iv.23 | I am provided of a torchbearer. | I am prouided of a Torch-bearer. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.iv.39 | Fair Jessica shall be my torchbearer. | Faire Iessica shall be my Torch-bearer. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vi.40 | Descend, for you must be my torchbearer. | Descend, for you must be my torch-bearer. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.5.1 | The bearers set down the hearse | |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.31 | The bearers take up the hearse | Enter Richard Duke of Gloster. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.43 | The bearers set down the hearse | |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.226 | Exeunt bearers and guard with corse | Exit Coarse |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.1.2 | other maskers, and torchbearers | other Maskers, Torch-bearers. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.14 | To be to thee this night a torchbearer | To be to thee this night a Torch-bearer, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.9 | When crouching marrow in the bearer strong | When crouching Marrow in the bearer strong |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.104 | The bearer knows not, but commends itself | The bearer knowes not, but commends it selfe, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iii.48 | I'll be your purse-bearer, and leave you for | Ile be your purse-bearer, and leaue you |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.ii.74 | Exeunt four Countrymen and garland-bearer | Exeunt 4. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.313 | His cupbearer – whom I from meaner form | His Cup-bearer, whom I from meaner forme |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.345 | And with your queen. I am his cupbearer. | And with your Queene: I am his Cup-bearer, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.92 | He hath been since an ape-bearer; then a process-server, | he hath bene since an Ape-bearer, then a Processe-seruer |