| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.61 | Is a reserved honesty, and that | Is a reserued honestie, and that |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.143 | Upon his peril, that I have reserved | Vpon his perill, that I haue reseru'd |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.165 | That I some lady trifles have reserved, | That I some Lady trifles haue reseru'd, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.180 | Not what you have reserved nor what acknowledged, | Not what you haue reseru'd, nor what acknowledg'd |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.18 | Always reserved my holy duty – what | (Alwayes reseru'd my holy duty) what |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.128 | that honour of hers, which you imagine so reserved. | Honor of hers, which you imagine so reseru'd. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.58 | Preserved the Britons, was the Romans' bane. | "Preseru'd the Britaines, was the Romanes bane. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.285 | of our youth, by the obligation of our ever-preserved | of our youth, by the Obligation of our euer-preserued |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.76 | But it reserved some quantity of choice | |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.v.33 | Rather than life preserved with infamy. | Rather then Life, preseru'd with Infamie. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.167 | Only reserved you claim no interest | / Onely reseru'd, you claime no interest |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.301 | Men's flesh preserved so whole do seldom win. | Mens flesh preseru'd so whole, doe seldome winne. |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.62 | Nay, he reserved a blanket; else we had been all | Nay, he reseru'd a Blanket, else we had bin all |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.74 | Of men's impossibilities, have preserved thee. | Of mens Impossibilities, haue preserued thee. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.45.2 | Here is a place reserved, sir. | Heere is a place reseru'd Sir. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.153 | Ere sunrise: prayers from preserved souls, | Ere Sunne rise: prayers from preserued soules, |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.464.1 | I have reserved alive. | I haue reseru'd aliue. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.204 | What cannot be preserved when fortune takes, | What cannot be presern'd, when Fortune takes: |
| Pericles | Per V.iii.57 | How possibly preserved, and who to thank, | how possiblie preserued? and who to thanke |
| Pericles | Per epilogue.V.iii.5 | Virtue preserved from fell destruction's blast, | Vertue preferd from fell destructions blast, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.128 | The other part reserved I by consent | The other part reseru'd I by consent, |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.119 | Must gently be preserved, cherished, and kept. | Must gently be preseru'd, cherisht, and kept: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.72 | Only reserved their factor to buy souls | Onely reseru'd their Factor, to buy soules, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.168 | Kind Rome, that hast thus lovingly reserved | Kind Rome, / That hast thus louingly reseru'd |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.135 | That nice-preserved honesty of yours. | That nice-preserued honesty of yours. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.109 | That have preserved her welfare in my blood, | That haue preseru'd her welfare in my blood, |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.253 | I was preserved to serve this noble Count. | I was preseru'd to serue this Noble Count: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.124 | Where hast thou been preserved? Where lived? How found | Where hast thou bin preseru'd? Where liu'd? How found |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.127 | Gave hope thou wast in being, have preserved | Gaue hope thou wast in being, haue preseru'd |