| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.v.64 | here, which he thinks is a patent for his sauciness; and | heere, which he thinkes is a pattent for his sawcinesse, and |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.250 | Tied it by letters patents. Now, who'll take it? | Ti'de it by Letters Patents. Now, who'll take it? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.80 | Ere I will my virgin patent up | Ere I will yeeld my virgin Patent vp |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.196 | If you are so fond over her iniquity, give her patent | If you are so fond ouer her iniquitie: giue her pattent |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.202 | Call in the letters patent that he hath | Call in his Letters Patents that he hath |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.129 | And yet my letters patents give me leave. | And yet my Letters Patents giue me leaue: |