| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.142 | Oft expectation fails, and most oft there | Oft expectation failes, and most oft there |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vi.47 | Should have borne men, and expectation fainted, | Should haue borne men, and expectation fainted, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.28 | Our expectation that it would be thus | Our expectation that it would be thus |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.20 | friends, and full of expectation. An excellent plot, very | Friends, and full of expectation: An excellent plot, very |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.36 | The hope and expectation of thy time | The hope and expectation of thy time |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.23 | Conjecture, expectation, and surmise | Coniecture, Expectation, and Surmise |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.65 | The utmost man of expectation, | The vtmost man of expectation: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.104 | Thou hast sealed up my expectation. | Thou hast seal'd vp my expectation. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.31 | You stand in coldest expectation. | You stand in coldest expectation. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.126 | To mock the expectation of the world, | To mocke the expectation of the World; |
| Henry V | H5 II.chorus.8 | For now sits expectation in the air, | For now sits Expectation in the Ayre, |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.20 | As were a war in expectation. | As were a Warre in expectation. |
| Henry V | H5 III.iii.44 | Our expectation hath this day an end. | Our expectation hath this day an end: |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.i.41 | The livelong day, with patient expectation, | The liue-long day, with patient expectation, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.7 | Fresh expectation troubled not the land | Fresh expectation troubled not the Land |
| King Lear | KL IV.iv.23 | In expectation of them. O dear father, | In expectation of them. O deere Father, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.5 | expectation of plenty. Come in time! Have napkins enow | expectation of Plentie: Come in time, haue Napkins enow |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iii.10 | The rest that are within the note of expectation, | The rest, that are within the note of expectation, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.16 | expectation than you must expect of me to tell you how. | expectation, then you must expect of me to tell you how. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.208 | never trust my expectation. | neuer trust my expectation. |
| Othello | Oth II.i.271 | expectation of our prosperity. | expectation of our prosperitie. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.23 | o'th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance | o'th'Time; / It opens the eyes of Expectation. / Performance, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC prologue.20 | Now expectation, tickling skittish spirits | Now Expectation tickling skittish spirits, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.16 | I am giddy; expectation whirls me round. | I am giddy; expectation whirles me round, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.14 | To drop on such a mistress, expectation | To drop on such a Mistris, expectation |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.105 | Lo, where our sister is in expectation, | Lo, where our Sister is in expectation, |