| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.12 | It bears an angry tenor. Pardon me, | It beares an angry tenure; pardon me, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.viii.1 | This is the tenor of the emperor's writ; | This is the tenor of the Emperors Writ; |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iv.7.1 | I guess their tenor. | I guesse their tenor. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.v.5 | Misuse the tenor of thy kinsman's trust? | Misuse the tenor of thy Kinsmans trust? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.9 | Their cold intent, tenor, and substance, thus: | Their cold intent, tenure, and substance thus. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.74 | To see performed the tenor of my word. | To see perform'd the tenure of our word. |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.72 | Whose tenors and particular effects | Whose Tenures and particular effects |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.206 | He did discharge a horrible oath, whose tenor | He did discharge a horrible Oath, whose tenor |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.169 | Myself have letters of the selfsame tenor. | My selfe haue Letters of the selfe-same Tenure. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.194 | receives letters of strange tenor, perchance of the Duke's | receiues letters of strange tenor, perchance of the Dukes |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.165 | The tenor of my book; trust not my age, | The tenure of my booke: trust not my age, |
| Pericles | Per I.i.112 | Though by the tenor of our strict edict, | Though by the tenour of your strict edict, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.III.24 | Are letters brought, the tenor these: | Are Letters brought, the tenour these: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC prologue.17 | And Antenorides, with massy staples | And Antenonidus with massie Staples |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.189 | Antenor passes across the stage | Enter Antenor. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.190 | That's Antenor. He has a shrewd wit, I can | That's Antenor, he has a shrow'd wit I can |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.90 | I bade the vile owl go learn me the tenor of the | I bad thee vile Owle, goe learne me the tenure of the |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.i.132 | Hector, Deiphobus, Helenus, Antenor, and all | Hector, Deiphobus, Helenus, Anthenor, and all |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.18 | You have a Trojan prisoner, called Antenor, | You haue a Troian prisoner, cal'd Anthenor, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.22 | Whom Troy hath still denied; but this Antenor, | Whom Troy hath still deni'd: but this Anthenor, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.i.1.2 | at another, Paris, Deiphobus, Antenor, Diomedes the | at another Paris, Diephobus, Anthenor, Diomed the |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.i.39 | For the enfreed Antenor, the fair Cressid. | For the enfreed Anthenor, the faire Cressid: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.62 | The Grecian Diomed, and our Antenor, | The Grecian Diomed, and our Anthenor |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.75 | devil take Antenor! The young prince will go mad: a | diuell take Anthenor; the yong Prince will goe mad: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.76 | plague upon Antenor! I would they had broke's neck! | a plague vpon Anthenor; I would they had brok's necke. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.86 | gentleman! – A plague upon Antenor! | Gentleman: a plague vpon Anthenor. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.90 | gone; thou art changed for Antenor. Thou must to thy | gone; thou art chang'd for Anthenor: thou must to thy |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iii.1.1 | Enter Paris, Troilus, Aeneas, Deiphobus, Antenor, | Enter Paris, Troylus, Aneas, Deiphebus, Anthenor |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.108.1 | Enter Aeneas, Paris, Antenor, Deiphobus, and | Enter the Greekes. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.109 | Which for Antenor we deliver you. | Which for Antenor, we deliuer you. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.1.1 | Enter Aeneas, Paris, Antenor, Deiphobus, and soldiers | Enter Aneas, Paris, Anthenor and Deiphobus. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.56 | The tenor of them doth but signify | The tenure of them doth but signifie |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.90 | The tenor of thy speech; dear glass of ladies, | The Tenour of the Speech. Deere Glasse of Ladies |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.122 | To speak before thy noble grace this tenor, | To speake before thy noble grace, this tenner: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.133 | Are you, that 'gainst the tenor of my laws | Are you? That gainst the tenor of my Lawes |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.38 | Is't not the tenor of his oracle, | Is't not the tenor of his Oracle, |