| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.i.36 | The weight we must convey with's will permit, | The waight we must conuay with's, will permit: |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.168 | But by your voices will not so permit me; | But by your Voyces, will not so permit me. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.78 | Permitted by our dastard nobles, who | Permitted by our dastard Nobles, who |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.i.13 | To have them fall no more: you some permit | To haue them fall no more: you some permit |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.196 | Who doth permit the base contagious clouds | Who doth permit the base contagious cloudes |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.61 | I will, if that my fading breath permit | I will, if that my fading breath permit, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.161 | ‘ Hath sent to me, wishing me to permit | Hath sent to me, wishing me to permit |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.39 | No doubt is lawfully permitted us; | No doubt is lawfully permitted vs: |
| King John | KJ II.i.84 | Peace be to France – if France in peace permit | Peace be to France: If France in peace permit |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.3 | Stand in the plague of custom and permit | Stand in the plague of custome, and permit |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.121 | To prison with her. Shall we thus permit | To prison with her: Shall we thus permit |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.194 | By this time, had the King permitted us, | By this time (had the King permitted vs) |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.120 | But time will not permit. All is uneven, | but time will not permit, / All is vneuen, |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.118 | Will you permit that I shall stand condemned | Will you permit, that I shall stand condemn'd |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.218 | Will not permit mine eyes once to behold | Will not permit mine eyes once to behold |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.74 | seem to steal in than be permitted; take upon you, | seeme to steale in, then be permitted; take / Vpon you |