| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.134 | And is not like the sire. Honours thrive | And is not like the sire: Honours thriue, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.26 | Cowards father cowards, and base things sire base; | "Cowards father Cowards, & Base things Syre Bace; |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.57 | Whiles that his mountain sire, on mountain standing, | Whiles that his Mountaine Sire, on Mountaine standing |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vi.54 | Then follow thou thy desperate sire of Crete, | Then follow thou thy desp'rate Syre of Creet, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.22 | And raise his issue like a loving sire; | And raise his issue like a louing Sire. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.135 | But thou art neither like thy sire nor dam; | But thou art neyther like thy Sire nor Damme, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.155 | And graced thy poor sire with his bridal day, | And grac'd thy poore Sire with his Bridall day, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.iv.9 | And cheers these hands that slew thy sire and brother | And cheeres these hands, that slew thy Sire and Brother, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.118 | More full of honour than his angry sire, | More full of honor then his angry syre, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.29 | For thine own bowels, which do call thee sire, | For thine owne bowels which do call thee, fire |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.30 | Which, like unruly children, make their sire | Which like vnruly Children, make their Syre |
| Richard III | R3 V.v.26 | The son, compelled, been butcher to the sire: | The Sonne compell'd, beene Butcher to the Sire; |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.404 | A child shall get a sire, if I fail not of my cunning. | A childe shall get a sire, if I faile not of my cunning. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.i.14 | Pluck the lined crutch from thy old limping sire, | Plucke the lyn'd Crutch from thy old limping Sire, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.384 | 'Twixt natural son and sire, thou bright defiler | Twixt naturall Sunne and fire: thou bright defiler |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.50 | Too like the sire for ever being good. | Too like the Syre for euer being good. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.231 | Could penetrate her uncompassionate sire – | Could penetrate her vncompassionate Sire; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.iv.9 | Sure is a happy sire, then. What proves you? | Sure is a happy Sire then: what prooves you? |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.195 | That could conceive a gross and foolish sire | That could conceiue a grosse and foolish Sire |