| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.ii.8 | eat no fish of Fortune's buttering. Prithee, allow the | eate no Fish of Fortunes butt'ring. Prethee alow the |
| As You Like It | AYL I.i.67 | Therefore allow me such exercises as may become a | therefore allow me such exercises as may become a |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.45 | Allow their officers, and are content | Allow their Officers, and are content |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.38 | Of these delated articles allow. | Of these dilated Articles allow: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.i.20 | Why, they will allow us ne'er a | Why, you will allow vs ne're a |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.5 | I well allow the occasion of our arms, | I well allow the occasion of our Armes, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.100 | I do allow this wen to be as familiar | I do allow this Wen to bee as familiar |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.ii.54 | I like them all, and do allow them well, | I like them all, and doe allow them well: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.69 | For competence of life I will allow you, | For competence of life, I will allow you, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.186 | Allow obedience, if you yourselves are old, | Allow Obedience; if you your selues are old, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.261 | Allow not nature more than nature needs – | Allow not Nature, more then Nature needs: |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.97 | Which, if convenience will not allow, | |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.231 | The time will not allow the compliment | The time will not allow the complement |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.216 | If the law would allow it, sir. | If the Law would allow it, sir. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.217 | But the law will not allow it, Pompey; nor it | But the Law will not allow it Pompey; nor it |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.62 | Which to maintain I would allow him odds, | Which to maintaine, I would allow him oddes, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.123 | Free speech and fearless I to thee allow. | Free speech, and fearelesse, I to thee allow. |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.40 | Whose state and honour I for aye allow. | Whose State, and Honor, I for aye allow. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.82 | Doth grace for grace and love for love allow. | Doth grace for grace, and Loue for Loue allow: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.89 | we are tasted, allow us as we prove. Our head shall go | we are tasted, allow vs as we proue: our head shall goe |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.ii.60 | That will allow me very worth his service. | That will allow me very worth his seruice. |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.57 | shalt hold the opinion of Pythagoras ere I will allow of | shalt hold th'opinion of Pythagoras, ere I will allow of |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.292 | ladyship will have it as it ought to be, you must allow | Ladyship will haue it as it ought to bee, you must allow |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.iv.4.1 | That these times can allow. | That these times can allow. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.i.29 | Is th' argument of Time. Of this allow, | Is th' argument of Time: of this allow, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.465 | He will allow no speech – which I do guess | He will allow no speech: (which I do ghesse |