| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.225 | thy bondage. I have a desire to hold my acquaintance | thy bondage, I haue a desire to holde my acquaintance |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.63 | 'Tis a hard bondage to become the wife | 'Tis a hard bondage to become the wife |
| As You Like It | AYL V.i.52 | translate thy life into death, thy liberty into bondage. | translate thy life into death, thy libertie into bondage: |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.73.1 | Assured bondage?’ | assured bondage? |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.111 | Of no more bondage be to where they are made | Of no more bondage be, to where they are made, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.44.1 | And sing our bondage freely. | And sing our Bondage freely. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.3 | Most welcome bondage; for thou art a way, | Most welcome bondage; for thou art a way |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.306.1 | They were not born for bondage. | They were not borne for bondage. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.111 | Your bondage happy, to be made a queen? | Your bondage happy, to be made a Queene? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.112 | To be a queen in bondage is more vile | To be a Queene in bondage, is more vile, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.90 | Cassius from bondage will deliver Cassius. | Cassius from Bondage will deliuer Cassius: |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.v.54 | Free from the bondage you are in, Messala. | Free from the Bondage you are in Messala, |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.49 | to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged | to finde an idleand fond bondage, in the oppression of aged |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.71 | will pray, Pompey, to increase your bondage. If you | will pray (Pompey) to encrease your bondage if you |
| Othello | Oth I.i.46 | That, doting on his own obsequious bondage, | That (doting on his owne obsequious bondage) |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.89 | Cast off his chains of bondage and embrace | Cast off his chaines of bondage, and embrace |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.160 | Bondage is hoarse and may not speak aloud, | Bondage is hoarse, and may not speake aloud, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.41 | Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage | Th' harmony of their tongues, hath into bondage |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.89 | As bondage e'er of freedom. Here's my hand. | As bondage ere of freedome: heere's my hand. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.34 | freedom out of bondage, making misery their mirth and | freedome out of Bondage, making misery their / Mirth, and |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.234 | will also be the bondage of certain ribbons and gloves. | will also be the bondage of certaine Ribbons and Gloues. |