| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.i.26 | You must not stay here longer. Your dismission | You must not stay heere longer, your dismission |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.72 | dismiss the controversy bleeding, the more entangled | dismisse the Controuersie bleeding, the more intangled |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.153 | His humble weeds. Will you dismiss the people? | his humble Weeds: / Will you dismisse the People? |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.ii.7.2 | Dismiss them home. | Dismisse them home. |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.i.67 | 'Twas very faintly he said ‘ Rise,’ dismissed me | 'Twas very faintly he said Rise: dismist me |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.82 | Dismiss my soldiers, or capitulate | Dismisse my Soldiers, or capitulate |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.51 | Save when command to your dismission tends, | Saue when command to your dismission tends, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.100 | In rage dismissed my father from the court, | In rage dismiss'd my Father from the Court, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iv.37 | Dismiss his power he means to visit us, | Dismisse his power, he meanes to visit vs: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.ii.96 | And, ere they be dismissed, let them march by. | And ere they be dismiss'd, let them march by. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.30 | With sweet enlargement doth dismiss me hence. | With sweet enlargement doth dismisse me hence: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.174 | So, now dismiss your army when ye please; | So, now dismisse your Army when ye please: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ix.21 | I do dismiss you to your several countries. | I do dismisse you to your seuerall Countries. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ix.40 | Until his army be dismissed from him. | Vntill his Army be dismist from him. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.44 | Then, Buckingham, I do dismiss my powers. | Then Buckingham I do dismisse my Powres. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.78 | Please you dismiss me, either with ay or no. | Please you dismisse me, eyther with I, or no. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.97 | Never lacks power to dismiss itself. | Neuer lacks power to dismisse it selfe. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.33 | Dismiss their biting whinyards, till your king | Dismisse their byting whinyards, till your King, |
| King John | KJ V.i.64 | And he hath promised to dismiss the powers | And he hath promis'd to dismisse the Powers |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.199 | Dismissing half your train, come then to me. | Dismissing halfe your traine, come then to me, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.202 | Return to her, and fifty men dismissed! | Returne to her? and fifty men dismiss'd? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.208 | O, dismiss this audience, and I shall tell you more. | O dismisse this audience, and I shall tell you more. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.71 | Beware the Thane of Fife! Dismiss me. Enough. | Beware the Thane of Fife: dismisse me. Enough. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.102 | Which a dismissed offence would after gall, | Which a dismis'd offence, would after gaule |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.23 | not, use him for the present and dismiss him. He cannot | not, vse him for the present, and dismisse him, hee cannot |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.104 | Upon my power I may dismiss this court | Vpon my power I may dismisse this Court, |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.8 | forthwith. Dismiss your attendant there. Look't be done. | forthwith: dismisse your Attendant there: look't be done. |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.13.1 | And bade me to dismiss you. | And bid me to dismisse you. |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.13.2 | Dismiss me? | Dismisse me? |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.78 | That hath dismissed us from our stewardship; | That hath dismiss'd vs from our Stewardship, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.67 | Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves, | Whose shadow the dismissed Batchelor loues, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.47 | Dismiss your followers, and, as suitors should, | Dismisse your Followers, and as Suters should, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.56 | That I will here dismiss my loving friends | That I will heere dismisse my louing Friends: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.60 | I thank you all and here dismiss you all, | I thanke you all, and heere Dismisse you all, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.104 | will, to dismiss it. | will, to dismisse it. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.163 | I have from your Sicilian shores dismissed; | I haue from your Sicilian Shores dismiss'd; |