| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.241 | A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch, | A needy-hollow-ey'd-sharpe-looking-wretch; |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.116 | Because I would not tax the needy commons, | Because I would not taxe the needie Commons, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.53 | A thievish pirate, and a needy mate, | A theeuish pyrate, and a needie mate, |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.95 | Are stored with corn to make your needy bread, | Are stor'd with Corne, to make your needie bread, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.105 | And joy comes well in such a needy time. | And ioy comes well, in such a needy time, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.42 | And in his needy shop a tortoise hung, | And in his needie shop a Tortoyrs hung, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.54 | And this same needy man must sell it me. | And this same needie man must sell it me. |