| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.57 | Of no allowance to your bosom's truth. | Of no allowance, to your bosomes truth. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.79 | On such regards of safety and allowance | On such regards of safety and allowance, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.27 | one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre | One, must in your allowance o're-way a whole Theater |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.322 | Without the King's will or the state's allowance, | Without the Kings will, or the States allowance, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.204 | By your allowance; which if you should, the fault | By your allowance, which if you should, the fault |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.104 | Under th' allowance of your great aspect, | Vnder th'allowance of your great aspect, |
| Othello | Oth I.i.128 | If this be known to you, and your allowance, | If this be knowne to you, and your Allowance, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.49 | Of very expert and approved allowance; | Of verie expert, and approu'd Allowance; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.377 | Give him allowance as the worthier man; | Giue him allowance as the worthier man, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.136 | A stirring dwarf we do allowance give | A stirring Dwarfe, we doe allowance giue, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.54 | Here finds allowance – on this horse is Arcite | Heere findes allowance: On this horse is Arcite |