| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.2 | Alexas, almost most absolute Alexas, where's the soothsayer | Alexas, almost most absolute Alexas, where's the Soothsayer |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.168.1 | He is an absolute master. | he is an absolute Master. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vi.11.1 | Absolute queen. | absolute Queene. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vii.42 | The absolute soldiership you have by land, | The absolute Soldiership you haue by Land, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.iii.11 | Our navy thrive, I have an absolute hope | Our Nauie thriue, I haue an absolute hope |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.117.2 | Most absolute lord, | Most absolute Lord: |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.90.1 | His absolute ‘shall'? | His absolute Shall? |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.116 | Though there the people had more absolute power – | Thogh there the people had more absolute powre |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.39.2 | You are too absolute, | You are too absolute, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.139 | Therefore, most absolute sir, if thou wilt have | Therefore most absolute Sir, if thou wilt haue |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.viii.10 | His absolute commission. Long live Caesar! | His absolute Commission. Long liue Casar. |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.106 | And burst of speaking were as his: I am absolute | And burst of speaking were as his: I am absolute |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.135 | Absolute madness could so far have raved, | absolute madnesse could so farre haue rau'd |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.135 | How absolute the knave is! We must speak by | How absolute the knaue is? wee must speake by |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.107 | an absolute gentleman, full of most excellent differences, | |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.50 | And pardon absolute for yourself, and these | And Pardon absolute for your selfe, and these, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.184 | Upon such large terms, and so absolute, | Vpon such large termes, and so absolute, |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.24 | Indeed, my lord, it is a most absolute and | Indeed my Lord, it is a most absolute and |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.298.1 | To him our absolute power. | To him our absolute power, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iv.15.1 | An absolute trust. | An absolute Trust. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.vi.40 | He did. And with an absolute ‘ Sir, not I!’ | He did: and with an absolute Sir, not I |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.38 | I speak not as in absolute fear of you. | I speake not as in absolute feare of you: |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iii.13 | My absolute power and place here in Vienna, | My absolute power, and place here in Vienna, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.5 | Be absolute for death: either death or life | Be absolute for death: either death or life |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.54 | May seem as shy, as grave, as just, as absolute | May seeme as shie, as graue, as iust, as absolute: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.58 | make an absolute courtier, and the firm fixture of thy | make an absolute Courtier, and the firme fixture of thy |
| Othello | Oth II.i.185 | My soul hath her content so absolute | My Soule hath her content so absolute, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.283 | Not out of absolute lust – though peradventure | Not out of absolute Lust, (though peraduenture |
| Pericles | Per II.v.19 | I like that well. Nay, how absolute she's in't, | I like that well: nay how absolute she's in't, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.IV.31 | With absolute Marina. So | With absolute Marina: so |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.109 | Absolute Milan. Me, poor man, my library | Absolute Millaine, Me (poore man) my Librarie |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.160 | Allowed with absolute power, and thy good name | Allowed with absolute power, and thy good name |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.26 | They are famed to be a pair of absolute men. | They are fam'd to be a paire of absolute men. |