| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iv.12 | make this a bloody day to somebody. But I pray God | make this a bloody day to some body. But I would |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.60 | 'Tis good. Go to the gate; somebody knocks. | 'Tis good. Go to the Gate, some body knocks: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.110 | villains. Somebody call my wife. Youth in a basket! O | villaine: some body call my wife: Youth in a basket: Oh |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.125 | Didst thou not hear somebody? | Did'st thou not heare some bodie? |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.310 | – I was too hot to do somebody good | I was too hot, to do somebody good, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.281 | A black day will it be to somebody. | A blacke day will it be to somebody. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.i.35 | cozen somebody in this city under my countenance. | cosen some bodie in this Citie vnder my countenance. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.47 | would somebody had heard her talk yesterday, as I did; | wold some-body had heard her talke yesterday as I did: |