| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.ii.63 | Expire before their fashions.’ This he wished. | Expire before their fashions: this he wish'd. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.108 | I will lay odds that, ere this year expire, | I will lay oddes, that ere this yeere expire, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.31 | I would his troubles likewise were expired, | I would his troubles likewise were expir'd, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.66 | Be full expired. Thanks, uncle Winchester, | Be full expyr'd. Thankes Vncle Winchester, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.103 | Seeing thy body's living date expired, | Seeing thy bodies liuing date expird, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.15 | The two days' respite is not yet expired, | The two daies respit is not yet expirde, |
| King John | KJ V.iv.36 | Even this ill night, your breathing shall expire, | Euen this ill night, your breathing shall expire, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.172 | Expire before the flowers in their caps, | Expire before the Flowers in their Caps, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.155 | This bond expires – I do expect return | This bond expires, I doe expect returne |
| Pericles | Per I.i.90 | As dangerous as the rest. Your time's expired; | As dangerous as the rest: your time's expir'd, |
| Pericles | Per II.iv.47 | If in which time expired he not return, | If in which time expir'd, he not returne, |
| Pericles | Per III.iii.2 | My twelve months are expired, and Tyrus stands | my twelue months are expir'd, and Tyrus standes |
| Pericles | Per III.iv.14 | Where you may abide till your date expire. | Where you may abide till your date expire, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.109 | With this night's revels and expire the term | With this nights reuels, and expire the tearme |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.19 | Till one of us expire. Think you but thus, | Till one of us expire: Thinke you but thus, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.4 | We have by so considering. We expire, | We have by so considering: we expire |