| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vi.79 | Your letters did withhold our breaking forth, | your Letters did with-holde our breaking forth |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.69.2 | The gods withhold me! | The Gods with-hold me, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.135 | When that my care could not withhold thy riots, | When that my Care could not with-hold thy Ryots, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iv.31 | Swearing that you withhold his levied host, | Swearing that you with-hold his leuied hoast, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.7 | Withhold revenge, dear God! 'Tis not my fault, | With-hold reuenge (deere God) 'tis not my fault, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.125 | Withhold thy speed, dreadful occasion! | With-hold thy speed, dreadfull Occasion: |
| King John | KJ V.vi.37 | Withhold thine indignation, mighty heaven, | With-hold thine indignation, mighty heauen, |
| Pericles | Per II.iv.4 | To withhold the vengeance that they had in store, | to with-hold the vengeance that / They had in store, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.51 | Who should withhold me? | Who should with-hold me? |