| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.12 | It bears an angry tenor. Pardon me, | It beares an angry tenure; pardon me, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.36.1 | Their tenour good, I trust. | Their tenure good I trust. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.9 | Their cold intent, tenor, and substance, thus: | Their cold intent, tenure, and substance thus. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.74 | To see performed the tenor of my word. | To see perform'd the tenure of our word. |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.169 | Myself have letters of the selfsame tenor. | My selfe haue Letters of the selfe-same Tenure. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.232 | When it is paid, according to the tenour. | When it is paid according to the tenure. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.165 | The tenor of my book; trust not my age, | The tenure of my booke: trust not my age, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.90 | I bade the vile owl go learn me the tenor of the | I bad thee vile Owle, goe learne me the tenure of the |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.56 | The tenor of them doth but signify | The tenure of them doth but signifie |