| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.ii.10 | Approved so to your majesty, may plead | Approu'd so to your Maiesty, may pleade |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.223 | There is a remedy, approved, set down, | There is a remedie, approu'd, set downe, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.103 | Till I have used the approved means I have, | Till I haue vs'd the approoued meanes I haue, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.iii.9 | favour is well approved by your tongue. What's the news | Fauour is well appear'd by your Tongue. What's the Newes |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.54 | That ever valiant and approved Scot, | That euer-valiant and approoued Scot, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.22 | He be approved in practice culpable. | He be approu'd in practise culpable. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.351 | noble strain, of approved valour and confirmed honesty. | noble straine, of approued valour, and confirm'd honesty, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.42 | Not to knit my soul to an approved wanton. | Not to knit my soule to an approued wanton. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.297 | Is he not approved in the height a villain that | Is a not approued in the height a villaine, that |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.77 | My very noble and approved good masters, | My very Noble, and approu'd good Masters; |
| Othello | Oth II.i.49 | Of very expert and approved allowance; | Of verie expert, and approu'd Allowance; |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.205 | And he that is approved in this offence, | And he that is approu'd in this offence, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.303 | I have well approved it, sir. I drunk! | I haue well approued it, Sir. I drunke? |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.44 | To more approved service and desert. | To more approued seruice, and desert. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.7 | My trusty servant well approved in all, | My trustie seruant well approu'd in all, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.3 | My best beloved and approved friend, | My best beloued and approued friend |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.1 | Approved warriors and my faithful friends, | Approued warriours, and my faithfull Friends, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.43 | O, 'tis the curse in love, and still approved, | Oh 'tis the curse in Loue, and still approu'd |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.65 | Was then of me approved, what not, condemned, | Was then of me approov'd, what not condemd |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.95 | I have seen it approved, how many times I know not, | I have seene it approved, how many times / I know not, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.ii.27 | they are in losing them when they have approved their | they are in loosing them, when they haue approued their |