| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.10 | Though my revenges were high bent upon him | Though my reuenges were high bent vpon him, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iii.36 | Bliss in our brows' bent; none our parts so poor | Blisse in our browes bent: none our parts so poore, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.152 | Met us again, and, madly bent on us, | Met vs againe, and madly bent on vs |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ii.16 | Whither 'tis bent. Most likely 'tis for you. | Whether 'tis bent: most likely, 'tis for you: |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.i.13 | Although they wear their faces to the bent | Although they weare their faces to the bent |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.30 | And here give up ourselves in the full bent | And here giue vp our selues, in the full bent, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.391 | (aside) They fool me to the top of my bent. – I will | They foole me to the top of my bent. / I will |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iii.44 | Th' associates tend, and everything is bent | Th'Associates tend, and euery thing at bent |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.79 | Such as is bent on sun-like majesty | Such as is bent on Sunne-like Maiestie, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.50 | off the breach, with his pike bent bravely; and to | off the Breach, with his Pike bent brauely, and to |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.16 | Against the French that met them in their bent, | against the French that met them in their bent, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.14 | Than midday sun fierce bent against their faces. | Then mid-day Sunne, fierce bent against their faces. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.53 | But all his mind is bent to holiness, | But all his minde is bent to Holinesse, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.162 | A sort of naughty persons, lewdly bent, | A sort of naughtie persons, lewdly bent, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.ii.22 | And who durst smile when Warwick bent his brow? | And who durst smile, when Warwicke bent his Brow? |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.210 | For I can give his humour the true bent, | For I can giue his humour the true bent; |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.iii.5 | but one mind in all these men, and it is bent against Caesar. | but one minde in all these men, and it is bent against Casar: |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.128 | But sith I see your majesty so bent, | But fith I see your maiestie so bent, |
| King John | KJ II.i.37 | Well then, to work! Our cannon shall be bent | Well, then to worke our Cannon shall be bent |
| King John | KJ II.i.422 | Speak on with favour. We are bent to hear. | Speake on with fauour, we are bent to heare. |
| King Lear | KL I.i.143 | The bow is bent and drawn; make from the shaft. | The bow is bent & drawne, make from the shaft. |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.137 | This sword, this arm, and my best spirits are bent | This Sword, this arme, and my best spirits are bent |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.116 | Which, not to anger bent, is music and sweet fire. | Which not to anger bent, is musique, and sweet fire. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.133 | More shall they speak; for now I am bent to know | More shall they speake: for now I am bent to know |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.10 | New-bent in heaven – shall behold the night | Now bent in heauen, shal behold the night |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.145 | O spite! O hell! I see you all are bent | O spight! O hell! I see you are all bent |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.218 | affections have their full bent. Love me? Why it must | affections haue the full bent: loue me? why it must |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.184 | Two of them have the very bent of honour; | Two of them haue the verie bent of honor, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.II.23 | How Thaliard came full bent with sin | How Thaliart came full bent with sinne, |
| Pericles | Per II.v.47 | But bent all offices to honour her. | But bent all offices to honour her. |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.65 | When he perceives the envious clouds are bent | When he perceiues the enuious Clouds are bent |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.25 | Are idly bent on him that enters next, | Areidlely bent on him that enters next, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.61 | Divinely bent to meditation, | Diuinely bent to Meditation, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.143 | If that thy bent of love be honourable, | If that thy bent of Loue be Honourable, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.64 | Of high-resolved men, bent to the spoil, | Of high resolued men, bent to the spoyle |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.252 | To set his sense on the attentive bent, | To set his sence on the attentiue bent, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.43 | Why such unplausive eyes are bent, why turned on him; | Why such vnplausiue eyes are bent? why turn'd on him? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.282 | But gives all gaze and bent of amorous view | But giues all gaze and bent of amorous view |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.37 | Or thy affection cannot hold the bent. | Or thy affection cannot hold the bent: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.101 | And do the deed with a bent brow. Most certain | And doe the deede with a bent brow, most crtaine |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.33 | O, who can find the bent of woman's fancy? | Oh who can finde the bent of womans fancy? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.42 | Is like an engine bent or a sharp weapon | Is like an Engyn bent, or a sharpe weapon |