| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.71 | Why this same strict and most observant watch | Why this same strict and most obseruant Watch, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.331 | Is strict in his arrest – O, I could tell you – | Is strick'd in his Arrest) oh I could tell you. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.149 | And I will call him to so strict account | And I will call him to so strict account, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.70 | Must keep aloof from strict arbitrement, | Must keepe aloofe from strict arbitrement, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.67 | Is all your strict preciseness come to this? | Is all your strict precisenesse come to this? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.114 | It shall be with such strict and severe covenants | It shall be with such strict and seuere Couenants, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.288 | Too strict a guardian for so fair a ward. | To stricke a gardion for so faire a weed, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.425 | Blot out the strict forbidding of the law, | Blot out the strict forbidding of the law, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.36 | But there are other strict observances: | But there are other strict obseruances: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.163 | O me, with what strict patience have I sat, | O me, with what strict patience haue I sat, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.180 | To the strict deputy, bid herself assay him. | To the strict deputie: bid her selfe assay him, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iii.19 | We have strict statutes and most biting laws, | We haue strict Statutes, and most biting Laws, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.4 | But rather wishing a more strict restraint | But rather wishing a more strict restraint |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.201 | Which if thou follow, this strict court of Venice | Which if thou follow, this strict course of Venice |
| Pericles | Per I.i.112 | Though by the tenor of our strict edict, | Though by the tenour of your strict edict, |
| Pericles | Per II.i.126 | With this strict charge, even as he left his life: | With this strict charge euen as he left his life, |
| Pericles | Per III.iii.8 | That the strict fates had pleased you had brought her hither, | that the strict fates had pleas'd, you had brought her hither |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.244 | I was too strict, to make mine own away. | I was too strict to make mine owne away: |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.80 | Is my strict fast – I mean my children's looks; | Is my strict fast, I meane my Childrens lookes, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.24 | You undergo too strict a paradox, | You vndergo too strict a Paradox, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.86 | For law is strict, and war is nothing more. | For Law is strict, and Warre is nothing more. |