| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.139 | all sanctified limit, as a desperate offendress against | all sanctified limit, as a desperate Offendresse against |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.151 | Therefore, merchant, I'll limit thee this day | Therefore Marchant, Ile limit thee this day |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.138 | You have stood your limitation, and the Tribunes | You haue stood your Limitation: / And the Tribunes |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.35.1 | To stride a limit. | To stride a limit. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.398 | scene individable, or poem unlimited. | Scene indiuidible: or Poem vnlimited. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.35 | And many limits of the charge set down | And many limits of the Charge set downe |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.69 | Into three limits very equally. | Into three Limits, very equally: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.39 | So long as out of limit and true rule | So long as out of Limit, and true Rule, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.119 | I prithee give no limits to my tongue; | I prythee giue no limits to my Tongue, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.283 | But, as it were, in sort or limitation, | But as it were in sort, or limitation? |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.93 | Shall the large limit of fair Brittayne | Shall the large limmit offaire Brittayne. |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.147 | Can overthrow the limit of our fate, | Can ouerthrow the limit of our fate, |
| King John | KJ I.i.22 | The farthest limit of my embassy. | The farthest limit of my Embassie. |
| King John | KJ V.ii.123 | And warrant limited unto my tongue. | And warrant limited vnto my tongue. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.67 | Within the limit of becoming mirth, | Within the limit of becomming mirth, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.49 | For 'tis my limited service. | for 'tis my limitted seruice. |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.217 | which time of the contract and limit of the solemnity, | which time of the contract, and limit of the solemnitie, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.161 | Alack, how may I do it, having the hour limited, | Alacke, how may I do it? Hauing the houre limited, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.iii.4 | breeds; therefore the sadness is without limit. | breeds, therefore the sadnesse is without limit. |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.151 | The dateless limit of thy dear exile. | The datelesse limit of thy deere exile: |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.109 | So high above his limits swells the rage | So high, aboue his Limits, swells the Rage |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.26 | Within the limits of yon lime and stone, | Within the limits of yond Lime and Stone, |
| Richard III | R3 III.iii.7 | Dispatch! The limit of your lives is out. | Dispatch, the limit of your Liues is out. |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.193 | I give a sparing limit to my tongue. | I giue a sparing limit to my Tongue. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.25 | Limit each leader to his several charge, | Limit each Leader to his seuerall Charge, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.67 | For stony limits cannot hold love out, | For stony limits cannot hold Loue out, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.125 | There is no end, no limit, measure, bound, | There is no end, no limit, measure, bound, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.96 | As my trust was, which had indeed no limit, | As my trust was, which had indeede no limit, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.72 | Beyond all limit of what else i'th' world, | Beyond all limit of what else i'th world |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.430 | In limited professions. Rascal thieves, | In limited Professions. Rascall Theeues |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.219 | Then into limits could I bind my woes. | Then into limits could I binde my woes: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.81 | boundless, and the act a slave to limit. | boundlesse, and the act a slaue to limit. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.8 | modest limits of order. | modest limits of order. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.30.1 | The heavenly limiter pleases. | The heavenly Lymiter pleases. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.105 | I have got strength of limit. Now, my liege, | I haue got strength of limit. Now (my Liege) |