| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.149 | Nay, blush not, Cleopatra. I approve | Nay blush not Cleopatra, I approue |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.8 | Does not approve me further, who was wont | Do's not approue me further, who was wont |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.380 | Thou dost approve thyself the very same: | Thou doo'st approue thy selfe the very same: |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.245 | Which must approve thee honest. ‘ If Pisanio | Which must approue thee honest. If Pasanio |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.29 | He may approve our eyes and speak to it. | He may approue our eyes, and speake to it. |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.134 | would not much approve me. Well, sir? | |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.9 | Nay, task me to my word, approve me, lord. | Nay, taske me to my word: approue me Lord. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.161 | say of wax, my growth would approve the truth. | say of wax, my growth would approue the truth. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.191 | and singing of anthems. To approve my youth further, | and singing of Anthemes. To approue my youth farther, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.74 | I shall not fail t' approve the fair conceit | I shall not faile t'approue the faire conceit |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.48 | And will approve fair Isabel's descent, | And will approue faire Issabells discent, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.184 | And your large speeches may your deeds approve | And your large speeches,may your deeds approue, |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.158 | Good King, that must approve the common saw, | Good King, that must approue the common saw, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vi.4 | The temple-haunting martlet, does approve | The Temple-haunting Barlet does approue, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.79 | Will bless it and approve it with a text, | Will blesse it, and approue it with a text, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.74 | On whose eyes I might approve | One whose eyes I might approue |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.11 | But the main article I do approve | But the maine Article I do approue |
| Othello | Oth II.i.44 | That so approve the Moor! O, let the heavens | That so approoue the Moore: Oh let the Heauens |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.58 | If consequence do but approve my dream, | If Consequence do but approue my dreame, |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.18 | So would not I: my love doth so approve him | So would not I: my loue doth so approue him, |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.49 | Let nobody blame him; his scorn I approve – | Let no body blame him, his scorne I approue. |
| Pericles | Per II.i.51 | All that may men approve or men detect! – | All that may men approue, or men detect. |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.112 | Both to defend himself and to approve | Both to defend himselfe, and to approue |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.35 | And that my sword upon thee shall approve, | And that my sword vpon thee shall approue, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.172 | Approve their truths by Troilus; when their rhymes, | Approue their truths by Troylus, when their rimes, |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.54 | I think nobly of the soul, and no way approve | I thinke nobly of the soule, and no way aproue |