| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.iv.14 | Thou fumblest, Eros, and my queen's a squire | Thou fumblest Eros, and my Queenes a Squire |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.ii.12 | not where. If I travel but four foot by the square further | not where. If I trauell but foure foot by the squire further |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.308 | And now is this Vice's dagger become a squire, | And now is this Vices Dagger become a Squire, |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.35 | but I will make you today a squire of low degree. I pray | but I will make you to day a squire of low degree. I pray |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.23 | Like to a trusty squire did run away; | Like to a trustie Squire, did run away. |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.49 | A squire, my Lord; John Copland is his name, | A Esquire my Lord, Iohn Copland is his name: |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.67 | I am, my liege, a northern squire indeed, | I am my liege a Northen Esquire indeed, |
| King John | KJ I.i.177 | A landless knight makes thee a landed squire. | A landlesse Knight, makes thee a landed Squire: |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.88 | No squire in debt nor no poor knight, | No Squire in debt, nor no poore Knight; |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iv.47 | the degree of a squire. | the degree of a Squire. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.131 | Following – her womb then rich with my young squire – | Following (her wombe then rich with my yong squire) |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.iii.48 | A proper squire! And who, and who? Which | A proper squier, and who, and who, which |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.144 | O fie upon them! Some such squire he was | Oh fie vpon them: some such Squire he was |
| Pericles | Per II.ii.17.1 | The First Knight enters and passes by, his squire | The first Knight passes by. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.171.2 | So stands this squire | So stands this Squire |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.336 | three but jumps twelve foot and a half by th' square. | three, but iumpes twelue foote and a halfe by th' squire. |