| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.201 | beget young gibbets, I never saw one so prone: yet, | beget yong Gibbets, I neuer saw one so prone: yet |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.332.1 | And blood of your begetting. | And blood of your begetting. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.7 | passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that | Passion, you must acquire and beget a Temperance that |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.221 | These lies are like their father that begets | These Lyes are like the Father that begets |
| Henry V | H5 III.i.23 | That those whom you called fathers did beget you! | That those whom you call'd Fathers, did beget you. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.87 | And doth beget new courage in our breasts. | And doth beget new Courage in our Breasts. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.11 | I did beget her, all the parish knows. | I did beget her, all the Parish knowes: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.v.74 | Is likely to beget more conquerors, | Is likely to beget more Conquerors, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.63 | O, heavy times, begetting such events! | Oh heauy times! begetting such Euents. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.91 | This deadly quarrel daily doth beget! | This deadly quarrell daily doth beget? |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iv.37 | one christening will beget a thousand: here will be | one Christening will beget a thousand, here will bee |
| King John | KJ I.i.80 | If old Sir Robert did beget us both | If old Sir Robert did beget vs both, |
| King Lear | KL II.i.33 | Some blood drawn on me would beget opinion | Some blood drawne on me, would beget opinion |
| King Lear | KL IV.iii.34 | Else one self mate and make could not beget | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.69 | His eye begets occasion for his wit, | His eye begets occasion for his wit, |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.115 | that pity begets you a good opinion, and that opinion a | that pittie begets you a good opinion, and that opinion a |
| Pericles | Per V.i.196 | Thou that beget'st him that did thee beget; | thou that begetst him that did thee beget, |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.55 | Fear, and not love, begets his penitence. | Feare, and not Loue, begets his penitence; |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.7 | My soul the father, and these two beget | My Soule, the Father: and these two beget |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iii.26 | Beget your happiness, be happy then, | Beget your happinesse, be happy then, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.297 | To quicken your increase I will beget | To quicken your encrease, I will beget |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.158 | Live, and beget a happy race of kings! | Liue, and beget a happy race of Kings, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.45 | Such friends as time in Padua shall beget. | Such friends (as time) in Padua shall beget. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.94 | Like a good parent, did beget of him | Like a good parent, did beget of him |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.6 | Which, cunningly effected, will beget | Which cunningly effected, will beget |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.30 | Till time beget some careful remedy. | Till time beget some carefull remedie. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.32 | They never do beget a coal-black calf. | They neuer do beget a cole-blacke-Calfe: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.i.126 | hot blood, and hot blood begets hot thoughts, and hot | hot bloud, and hot bloud begets hot thoughts, and hot |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.i.127 | thoughts beget hot deeds, and hot deeds is love. | thoughts beget hot deedes, and hot deedes is loue. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.97 | But rather to beget more love in you; | But rather to beget more loue in you. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.134 | We are one another's wife, ever begetting | We are one anothers wife, ever begetting |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.132 | Might thus have stood, begetting wonder, as | Might thus haue stood, begetting wonder, as |