| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.116 | resistance. | resistance. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.55.1 | Than could his war resisted. | Then could his Warre resisted |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.266 | With rigorous hands. He hath resisted law, | With rigorous hands: he hath resisted Law, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.317 | Our Aediles smote? Ourselves resisted? Come! | Our Ediles smot: our selues resisted: come. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.105 | Do smilingly revolt, and who resists | Do smilingly Reuolt, and who resists |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.i.68 | For fury, not to be resisted. Thus defied, | For fury, not to be resisted. Thus defide, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.50 | Those that would die, or ere resist, are grown | Those that would dye, or ere resist, are growne |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.97 | feathers turn back in any show of resistance. Call him | feathers turne backe in any shew of resistance. Call him |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.6 | But how, my lord, shall we resist it now? | But how my Lord shall we resist it now? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.79 | Thou that so stoutly hath resisted me, | Thou that so stoutly hath resisted me, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iii.60 | It boots not to resist both wind and tide. | It boots not to resist both winde and tide. |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.4 | And now unto this proud resisting town. | And now vnto this proud resisting towne, |
| King John | KJ II.i.38 | Against the brows of this resisting town. | Against the browes of this resisting towne, |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.347 | What, resists he? Help him, Lucio. | What, resists he? helpe him Lucio. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.44 | Have vanquished the resistance of her youth, | Haue vanquisht the resistance of her youth, |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.80 | Lay hold upon him: if he do resist, | Lay hold vpon him, if he do resist |
| Pericles | Per I.i.41 | For going on death's net, whom none resist. | For going on deaths net, whom none resist. |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.27 | Our men be vanquished ere they do resist, | Our men be vanquisht ere they doe resist, |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.84 | If wars, we are unable to resist. | If warres, wee are vnable to resist. |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.29 | These cates resist me, he but thought upon. | These Cates resist mee, hee not thought vpon. |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.148 | Prevent it; resist it; let it not be so, | Preuent it, resist it, and let it not be so, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.220 | If she had not a spirit to resist. | If she had not a spirit to resist. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.466 | I will resist such entertainment till | I will resist such entertainment, till |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.180 | To their benumbed wills, resist the same, | To their benummed wills resist the same, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.ii.17 | Smell where resistance is. I'll set it down | Smell where resistance is. Ile set it downe |