| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.6 | commander, and that with his own hand he slew the | Commander, / And that with his owne hand he slew / The |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.93 | A good old commander, and a most kind | A good old Commander, and a most kinde |
| King John | KJ II.i.314 | Commander of this hot malicious day. | Commander of this hot malicious day, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.559 | When in the world I lived, I was the world's commander; | When in the world I liu'd, I was the worldes Commander: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.565 | When in the world I lived, I was the world's commander – | When in the world I liued, I was the worldes Commander. |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.271 | good a commander with so slight, so drunken, and so | good a Commander, with so slight, so drunken, and so |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.167 | Ay, my commander. When I presented Ceres, | I my Commander, when I presented Ceres |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.250 | King and commander of our commonweal, | King and Commander of our Common-weale, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.28 | Lord of my life, commander of my thoughts, | Lord of my life, Commander of my thoughts, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.55 | Thou great commander, nerve and bone of Greece, | Thou great Commander, Nerue, and Bone of Greece, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.43 | Thy commander, Achilles. Then tell me, | Thy Commander Achilles, then tell me |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.i.67 | Love thee as our commander and our king. | Loue thee, as our Commander, and our King. |