| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.v.95 | cheek is worn bare. | cheeke is worne bare. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.96 | Of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show | Of bare distresse, hath tane from me the shew |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iii.55 | of a married man more honourable than the bare brow | of a married man, more honourable then the bare brow |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.73 | I thank him, I bare home upon my shoulders; | I thanke him, I bare home vpon my shoulders: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.130.2 | merchant of Syracuse, barehead, with the Headsman | Merchant of Siracuse bare head, with the Headsman, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ix.40.3 | stand bare | stand bare. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.10 | To buy and sell with groats, to show bare heads | To buy and sell with Groats, to shew bare heads |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.i.20 | It was a bare petition of a state | It was a bare petition of a State |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.49 | May bare the raven's eye! I lodge in fear; | May beare the Rauens eye: I lodge in feare, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.64.1 | And left me bare to weather. | And left me bare to weather. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.119 | thou hast stuck to the bare fortune of that | thou hast stucke to the bare Fortune of that |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.76 | With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear, | With a bare Bodkin? Who would these Fardles beare |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.166 | They bore him bare-faced on the bier, | They bore him bare fac'd on the Beer, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.41 | And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by, | And as the Souldiers bare dead bodies by, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.13 | Such poor, such bare, such lewd, such mean attempts, | Such poore, such bare, such lewd, such meane attempts, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.ii.67 | exceeding poor and bare, too beggarly. | exceeding poore and bare, too beggarly. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.ii.72 | fingers in the ribs bare. But sirrah, make haste. Percy is | fingers on the Ribbes bare. But sirra, make haste, Percy is |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.360 | And drop upon our bare unarmed heads. | And drop vpon our bare vnarmed heads. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.19 | black George Barnes, and Francis Pickbone, and Will | blacke George Bare, and Francis Pick-bone, and Will |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.117 | sterile, and bare land manured, husbanded, and tilled, | stirrill, and bare Land, manured, husbanded, and tyll'd, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.228 | From this bare withered trunk. Upon thy sight | From this bare, wither'd Trunke. Vpon thy sight |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.139 | Which Caesar and his fortune bare at once. | Which Casar and his fortune bare at once. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.36 | Whom with my bare fists I would execute, | Whom with my bare fists I would execute, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.x.75 | Die, damned wretch, the curse of her that bare thee; | Die damned Wretch, the curse of her that bare thee: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.ii.64 | But then Aeneas bare a living load, | But then, Aeneas bare a liuing loade; |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.125 | They are too thin and bare to hide offences; | They are too thin, and base to hide offences, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.80 | Upon the bare report and name of arms. | Vpon the bare report and name of Armes. |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.8 | Enter six Citizens in their shirts, barefoot, with halters about their necks | Enter sixe Citizens in their Shirts, bare foote, with halters about their necks. |
| King Lear | KL II.iii.15 | Strike in their numbed and mortified bare arms | Strike in their num'd and mortified Armes. |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.104 | more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art. | more but such a poore, bare, forked Animall as thou art. |
| King Lear | KL III.vii.58 | The sea, with such a storm as his bare head | The Sea, with such a storme as his bare head, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.86 | I bar it in the interest of my wife. | I bare it in the interest of my wife, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.36.1 | Meeting were bare without it. | Meeting were bare without it. |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.42 | That from the seedness the bare fallow brings | That from the seednes, the bare fallow brings |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.44 | How many then should cover that stand bare, | How many then should couer that stand bare? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.249.1 | Therefore lay bare your bosom. | Therefore lay bare your bosome. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.190 | The hate I bear thee made me leave thee so? | The hate I bare thee, made me leaue thee so? |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.173.1 | Than their bare hands. | Then their bare hands. |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.48 | All kinds of sores and shames on my bare head, | All kind of Sores, and Shames on my bare-head: |
| Othello | Oth V.i.2 | Wear thy good rapier bare, and put it home. | Weare thy good Rapier bare, and put it home: |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.297 | By bare imagination of a feast, | by bare imagination of a Feast? |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.46 | Stand bare and naked, trembling at themselves? | Stand bare and naked, trembling at themselues. |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.91 | Some tardy cripple bare the countermand, | Some tardie Cripple bare the Countermand, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.46 | And that bare vowel ‘ I ’ shall poison more | And that bare vowell I shall poyson more |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.68 | Art thou so bare and full of wretchedness | Art thou so bare and full of wretchednesse, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.ii.13 | Who bare my letter, then, to Romeo? | Who bare my Letter then to Romeo? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iv.18.1 | Enter Baptista, and Lucentio as Cambio | Enter Baptista and Lucentio: Pedant booted and bare headed. |
| The Tempest | Tem epilogue.8 | In this bare island by your spell; | In this bare Island, by your Spell, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.i.42 | time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship | time to lend money, especially vpon bare friendshippe |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.230 | Of wreakful heaven, whose bare unhoused trunks, | Of wrekefull Heauen, whose bare vnhoused Trunkes, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.266 | Fell from their boughs, and left me open, bare, | Fell from their boughes, and left me open, bare, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iv.17 | Have lopped and hewed and made thy body bare | Hath lopt, and hew'd, and made thy body bare |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.90 | bare till merit crown it; no perfection in reversion shall | bare till merit crowne it: no perfection in reuersion shall |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.105 | With truth and plainness I do wear mine bare. | With truth and plainnesse I doe weare mine bare: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.43 | for it appears by their bare liveries, that they live | For it appeares by their bare Liueries / That they liue |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.44 | by your bare words. | by your bare words. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.270 | water-spaniel – which is much in a bare Christian. | Water-Spaniell, which is much in a bare Christian: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.i.35 | By the bare scalp of Robin Hood's fat friar, | By the bare scalpe of Robin Hoods fat Fryer, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.15 | Walking in Thebes? Scars and bare weeds | Walking in Thebs? Skars, and bare weedes |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.309 | Had servants true about me, that bare eyes | Had Seruants true about me, that bare eyes |