| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.80 | To urge the plea of mercy to a man, | To vrge the plea of mercie to a man, |
| King John | KJ I.i.67 | That is my brother's plea, and none of mine; | That is my brothers plea, and none of mine, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.7 | Matchless Navarre; the plea of no less weight | Matchlesse Nauarre, the plea of no lesse weight |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.75 | In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, | In Law, what Plea so tanted and corrupt, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.282 | But none can drive him from the envious plea | But none can driue him from the enuious plea |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.195 | Though justice be thy plea, consider this: | Though Iustice be thy plea, consider this, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.200 | To mitigate the justice of thy plea, | To mittigate the iustice of thy plea: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.115 | That to your sword you will bequeath this plea, | That to your Sword you will bequeath this plea, |