| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.101 | So far ask pardon as befits mine honour | So farre aske pardon, as befits mine Honour |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.2 | The memory be green, and that it us befitted | The memory be greene: and that it vs befitted |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.89 | Good Master Silence, it well befits you should | Good M. Silence, it well befits you should |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.2 | Sit down with us; it ill befits thy state | Sit downe with vs: it ill befits thy State, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vii.44 | Such as befits the pleasure of the court? | Such as befits the pleasure of the Court. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.755 | As love is full of unbefitting strains, | As Loue is full of vnbefitting straines, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.239 | As best befits her wounded reputation, | As best befits her wounded reputation, |
| Pericles | Per I.i.121 | As doth befit our honour and your worth. | As doth befit our honour and your worth. |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.66 | Alas, my father, it befits not me | Alas my Father, it befits not mee, |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.73 | O, how that name befits my composition! | Oh how that name befits my composition: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.i.32 | Blind is his love and best befits the dark. | Blind is his Loue, and best befits the darke. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.295.1 | We say befits the hour. | We say befits the houre. |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.165 | Befitting this first meeting. Welcome, sir. | Befitting this first meeting: Welcome, Sir; |