| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.235 | patient, there is no fettering of authority. I'll beat him, | patient, there is no fettering of authority. Ile beate him |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.117 | (aside) These strong Egyptian fetters I must break, | These strong Egyptian Fetters I must breake, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.i.33 | This amorous surfeiter would have donned his helm | This amorous Surfetter would haue donn'd his Helme |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.8 | T' unbar these locks. My conscience, thou art fettered | T'vnbarre these Lockes. My Conscience, thou art fetter'd |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.25 | For we will fetters put about this fear, | For we will Fetters put vpon this feare, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.244 | As is our wretches fettered in our prisons: | As is our wretches fettred in our prisons, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vii.11 | That in their chains fettered the kingly lion | That in their Chaines fetter'd the Kingly Lyon, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.70.1 | But fetter you till death. | But fetter you till death. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.25 | Fetter strong madness in a silken thread, | Fetter strong madnesse in a silken thred, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.335 | His soul is so enfettered to her love, | His Soule is so enfetter'd to her Loue, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.15 | Hast prisoner held, fettered in amorous chains, | Hast prisoner held, fettred in amorous chaines, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.6 | Let him receive no sust'nance, fetter him | Let him receiue no sustenance, fetter him, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.152 | But rather reason thus with reason fetter: | But rather reason thus, with reason fetter; |