| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.218 | And shrive you of a thousand idle pranks. – | And shriue you of a thousand idle prankes: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.119 | Doubtless he shrives this woman to her smock; | Doubtlesse he shriues this woman to her smock, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.108 | When he was made a shriver, 'twas for shift. | When hee was made a Shriuer, 'twas for shift. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.125 | shrive me than wive me. Come, Nerissa. Sirrah, go | shriue me then wiue me. Come Nerrissa, sirra go |
| Pericles | Per II.iv.9 | A fire from heaven came and shrivelled up | a fire from heauen came and shriueld / Vp |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.179 | Be shrived and married. Here is for thy pains. | Be shriu'd and married: here is for thy paines. |