| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.776 | As bombast and as lining to the time. | As bumbast and as lining to the time: |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.206 | Bum, sir. | Bum, Sir. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.207 | Troth, and your bum is the greatest thing about | Troth, and your bum is the greatest thing about |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.53 | Then slip I from her bum. Down topples she, | Then slip I from her bum, downe topples she, |
| Othello | Oth I.i.13 | Evades them with a bombast circumstance | Euades them, with a bumbast Circumstance, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.54 | A bump as big as a young cockerel's stone, | a bumpe as big as a young Cockrels stone? |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.21 | looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor. If | lookes like a foule bumbard that would shed his licquor: if |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.236 | Serving of becks and jutting-out of bums! | seruing of beckes, and iutting out of bummes. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.174 | corner of the orchard like a bum-baily. So soon as ever | corner of the Orchard like a bum-Baylie: so soone as euer |