| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iii.58 | When service sweat for duty, not for meed! | When seruice sweate for dutie, not for meede: |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.95 | He proved best man i'th' field, and for his meed | He prou'd best man i'th' field, and for his meed |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.163 | Be crossed with slowness; labour be his meed! | Be crost with slownesse; Labour be his meede. |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.141 | laid on him by them, in his meed he's unfellowed. | |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.viii.38 | That's not my fear. My meed hath got me fame; | That's not my feare, my meed hath got me fame: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.257 | receive the meed of punishment, by thy sweet grace's officer, | receiuethe meed of punishment by thy sweet Graces Officer |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.197 | mind or in my means – meed, I am sure, I have received | minde, or in my meanes, meede I am sure I haue receiued |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.138 | And for his meed, poor lord, he is mewed up. | And for his meede, poore Lord, he is mewed vp: |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.231 | If you are hired for meed, go back again, | If you are hyr'd for meed, go backe againe, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.285 | And when I have my meed, I will away, | And when I haue my meede, I will away, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.282 | Is but his steward. No meed but he repays | Is but his Steward: no meede but he repayes |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.219 | Of noble minds is honourable meed. | Of Noble mindes, is Honourable Meede. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.65 | There's meed for meed, death for a deadly deed. | There's meede for meede, death for a deadly deed. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.110 | And duty never yet did want his meed. | And dutie neuer yet did want his meed. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.23 | Vouchsafe me, for my meed, but one fair look; | Vouchsafe me for my meed, but one faire looke: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.16 | You are the victor's meed, the prize and garland | You are the victours meede, the price, and garlond |