| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.32 | What yesternight our Council did decree | What yesternight our Councell did decree, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.117 | To dash our late decree in parliament | To dash our late Decree in Parliament, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.38 | And turn pre-ordinance and first decree | And turne pre-Ordinance, and first Decree |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.44 | Thy brother by decree is banished: | Thy Brother by decree is banished: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.145 | We must of force dispense with this decree. | We must of force dispence with this Decree, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.215 | Young blood doth not obey an old decree. | Young bloud doth not obey an old decree. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.18 | blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree, such a | blood, but a hot temper leapes ore a colde decree, such a |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.216 | Can alter a decree established. | Can alter a decree established: |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.122 | While we return these dukes what we decree. | While we returne these Dukes what we decree. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.138 | Have you delivered to her our decree? | Haue you deliuered to her our decree? |