| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.40 | For we are old, and on our quickest decrees | For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.98 | Or as the Destinies decrees. | Or as the destinies decrees. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.13 | It hath in solemn synods been decreed | It hath in solemne Synodes beene decreed, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.34 | As with a man busied about decrees: | As with a man busied about Decrees: |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.287 | Our certain death. Therefore it is decreed | Our certaine death: therefore it is decreed, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.32 | What yesternight our Council did decree | What yesternight our Councell did decree, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.79 | Some certain edicts and some strait decrees | Some certaine Edicts, and some strait Decrees, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.118 | Pluck down my officers, break my decrees; | Plucke downe my Officers, breake my Decrees; |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.85 | To have a son set your decrees at naught? | To haue a Sonne, set your Decrees at naught? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.117 | To dash our late decree in parliament | To dash our late Decree in Parliament, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.38 | And turn pre-ordinance and first decree | And turne pre-Ordinance, and first Decree |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.44 | Thy brother by decree is banished: | Thy Brother by decree is banished: |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.63 | Have by a council willingly decreed | Haue by a counsell willingly decreed, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.35 | But, as imperial justice hath decreed, | But as imperiall iustice hath decreed, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.117 | And to the strictest decrees I'll write my name. | And to the strictest decrees Ile write my name. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.145 | We must of force dispense with this decree. | We must of force dispence with this Decree, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.215 | Young blood doth not obey an old decree. | Young bloud doth not obey an old decree. |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iii.27 | Becomes more mocked than feared, so our decrees, | More mock'd, then fear'd: so our Decrees, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.18 | blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree, such a | blood, but a hot temper leapes ore a colde decree, such a |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.102 | There is no force in the decrees of Venice. | There is no force in the decrees of Venice; |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.216 | Can alter a decree established. | Can alter a decree established: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.iii.31 | a clog; therefore I have decreed not to sing in my cage. | a clog, therefore I haue decreed, not to sing in my cage: |
| Pericles | Per I.i.58 | Which read and not expounded, 'tis decreed, | Which read and not expounded, tis decreed, |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.15 | In framing an artist, art hath thus decreed, | In framing an Artist, art hath thus decreed, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.122 | While we return these dukes what we decree. | While we returne these Dukes what we decree. |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.212 | My acts, decrees, and statutes I deny. | My Acts, Decrees, and Statutes I denie: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.146 | Go, get thee to thy love, as was decreed. | Goe get thee to thy Loue as was decreed, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.138 | Have you delivered to her our decree? | Haue you deliuered to her our decree? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.274 | Where we decreed to bury Bassianus. | Where we decreed to bury Bassianuss |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.11 | That so my sad decrees may fly away, | That so my sad decrees may flie away, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.vii.8 | It is decreed Hector the great must die. | It is decreed, Hector the great must dye. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.301 | What is decreed must be, and be this so. | What is decreed, must be: and be this so. |