| 1H6 V.iii.5 | [Pucelle to spirits] You speedy helpers that are substitutes |
| 2H4 IV.ii.28 | [Prince John to Archbishop] You have taken up, / Under the counterfeited zeal of God, / The subjects of His substitute, my father |
| 2H4 IV.iv.6 | [King Henry IV to all] Our substitutes in absence [are] well invested |
| MM III.i.189 | [disguised Duke to Isabella, of Angelo] How will you do to content this substitute |
| MM IV.ii.178 | [Provost to disguised Duke, responding to 'Were you sworn to the Duke or to his deputy?'] To him, and to his substitutes |
| MM V.i.133 | [Duke to all, of Friar Lodowick, Isabella, and Angelo] This' a good friar, belike, / And to set on this wretched woman here / Against our substitute! |
| MM V.i.140 | [Friar Peter to Duke] hath this woman / Most wrongfully accused your substitute |
| MV V.i.94 | [Portia to Nerissa] A substitute shines brightly as a king / Until a king be by |
| Oth I.iii.221 | [Duke to Othello, of Cyprus] we have there a substitute of most allowed sufficiency |
| R3 III.vii.180 | [Buckingham to Richard, of King Edward] by substitute betrothed / To Bona |