| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.21 | If they demand. Beware of being captives | If they demand: beware of being Captiues |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.18 | Earl. Beware of them, Diana: their promises, enticements, | Earle, beware of them Diana; their promises, entisements, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.52 | Thou speakest wiser than thou art ware of. | Thou speak'st wiser then thou art ware of. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.53 | Nay, I shall ne'er be ware of mine own wit | Nay, I shall nere be ware of mine owne wit, |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.181 | beware my censure, and keep your promise. | beware my censure, and keep your promise. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.18 | You would keep from my heels, and beware of an ass. | You would keepe from my heeles, and beware of an asse. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.40 | your end,’ or rather, to prophesy like the parrot, ‘ beware | your end, or rather the prophesie like the Parrat, beware |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.55 | And beat the messenger who bids beware | And beate the Messenger, who bids beware |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.65 | Of each new-hatched, unfledged courage. Beware | Of each vnhatch't, vnfledg'd Comrade. Beware |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.67 | Bear't that th' opposed may beware of thee. | Bear't that th'opposed may beware of thee. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.265 | beware instinct. The lion will not touch the true prince. | beware Instinct, the Lion will not touch the true Prince: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.46 | To this we swore our aid. But in short space | To this, we sware our aide: But in short space, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.307 | whistle, and sware they were his fancies or his good-nights. | |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iii.47 | Blue coats to tawny coats! Priest, beware your beard; | Blew Coats to Tawny Coats. Priest, beware your Beard, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.39 | Hath wrought this hellish mischief unawares, | Hath wrought this Hellish Mischiefe vnawares, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.62 | Whom in this conflict I, unwares, have killed. | Whom in this Conflict, I (vnwares) haue kill'd: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.ii.23 | At unawares may beat down Edward's guard | At vnawares may beat downe Edwards Guard, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iv.9 | Or by his foe surprised at unawares; | Or by his Foe surpriz'd at vnawares: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.viii.63 | And take the great-grown traitor unawares. | And take the great-growne Traytor vnawares: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.84 | Clarence, beware; thou keepest me from the light. | Clarence beware, thou keept'st me from the Light, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.172 | Beware you lose it not. For us, if you please | Beware you loose it not: For vs (if you please |
| Henry VIII | H8 epilogue.8 | All the expected good we're like to hear | All the expected good w'are like to heare. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.18.1 | Beware the ides of March. | Beware the Ides of March. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.19 | A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March. | A Sooth-sayer bids you beware the Ides of March |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.23 | Beware the ides of March. | Beware the Ides of March. |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.iii.1 | Caesar, beware of Brutus; take heed of | Casar, beware of Brutus, take heede of |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.22 | Will not beware how she's ensnared again? | Will not beware how shees insnard againe: |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.134 | Beware my follower! Peace, Smulkin. Peace, thou fiend! | Beware my Follower. Peace Smulkin, peace thou Fiend. |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.7 | in the lake of darkness. Pray, innocent, and beware the | in the Lake of Darknesse: pray Innocent, and beware the |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.43 | 'Ware pencils, ho! Let me not die your debtor, | Ware pensals. How? Let me not die your debtor, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.93 | The King and his companions! Warily | The King and his companions: warely |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.317 | He is wit's pedlar, and retails his wares | He is Wits Pedler, and retailes his Wares, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.70 | Macbeth, Macbeth, Macbeth, beware Macduff! | Macbeth, Macbeth, Macbeth: / Beware Macduffe, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.71 | Beware the Thane of Fife! Dismiss me. Enough. | Beware the Thane of Fife: dismisse me. Enough. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iii.7 | But since I am a dog, beware my fangs. | But since I am a dog, beware my phangs, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.163.2 | O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! | Oh, beware my Lord, of iealousie, |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.38 | My liege, beware, look to thyself, | My Liege beware, looke to thy selfe, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.291 | Have not to do with him, beware of him. | Haue not to do with him, beware of him, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.124 | Towards him I made. But he was ware of me | Towards him I made, but he was ware of me, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.103 | But that thou overheardest, ere I was ware, | But that thou ouer heard'st ere I was ware |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.210 | If I be waspish, best beware my sting. | If I be waspish, best beware my sting. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.309 | Shake off slumber, and beware. | Shake off slumber and beware. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.490 | I found a friend, and sure as death I swore | I found a friend, and sure as death I sware, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.69 | Young lords, beware; and should the Empress know | Young Lords beware, and should the Empresse know, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.95 | But if you hunt these bear-whelps, then beware: | But if you hunt these Beare-whelpes, then beware |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.359 | Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares, | Let vs (like Merchants) shew our fowlest Wares, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.36 | Like vassalage at unawares encountering | Like vassalage at vnawares encountring |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.228.2 | O, then, beware; | O then beware: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.55 | wrong ere you are 'ware; you'll be so true to him to be | wrong, ere y'are ware: youle be so true to him, to be |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.vii.12 | has the game; 'ware horns, ho! | has the game: ware hornes ho? |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.45 | the sheet were big enough for the bed of Ware in England, | the sheete were bigge enough for the bedde of Ware in England, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.205 | fellow. Has he any unbraided wares? | fellow, has he any vnbraided Wares? |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.321 | That doth utter all men's ware-a. | That doth vtter all mens ware-a. |