| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.35 | pyramises are very goodly things; without contradiction | Pyramisis are very goodly things: without contradiction |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.27 | Of contradiction. Being once chafed, he cannot | Of contradiction. Being once chaft, he cannot |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.52 | which may – without contradiction – suffer the report. | which may (without contradiction) suffer the report. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.167 | contradiction you shall now be quit. O, the charity | contradiction you shall now be quit: Oh the charity |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.252 | As being thought to contradict your liking, | As being thought to contradict your liking, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.28 | I ever contradicted your desire, | I euer contradicted your Desire? |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.70 | To contradict our royal Queen's desire? | To contradict our royall Queenes desire? |
| King John | KJ II.i.280 | – Stand in his face to contradict his claim. | Stand in his face to contradict his claime. |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.88 | And I her husband contradict your banns. | And I her husband contradict your Banes. |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.86 | Dear Duff, I prithee contradict thyself | Deare Duff, I prythee contradict thy selfe, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.124 | Shall be accomplished without contradiction. | Shall be accomplish'd without contradiction: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.153 | A greater power than we can contradict | A greater power then we can contradict |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.22 | Which contradicts my accusation, and | Which contradicts my Accusation, and |