| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.112 | His confession is taken, and it shall be | His confession is taken, and it shall bee |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.279 | sent for. And there is a kind of confession in your looks, | sent for; and there is a kinde confession in your lookes; |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.9 | When we would bring him on to some confession | When we would bring him on to some Confession |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.94 | He made confession of you, | Hee mad confession of you, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.94 | I see a strange confession in thine eye. | I see a strange Confession in thine Eye: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.432.2 | The fairest is confession. | The fairest is confession. |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.37 | feeling of thy speech. I will, out of thine own confession, | feeling of thy speech: I will, out of thine owne confession, |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.369 | But let my trial be mine own confession. | But let my Triall, be mine owne Confession: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.36 | Had been the very sum of my confession. | Had beene the verie sum of my confession: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.67 | It appears not in this confession; there's not | It appeares not in this confession, there's not |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.37 | Handkerchief – confession – handkerchief! To | Handkerchiefe: Confessions: Handkerchiefe. To |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.52 | Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift. | Ridling confession, findes but ridling shrift. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.234 | To make confession and to be absolved. | To make confession, and to be absolu'd. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.22 | Come you to make confession to this father? | Come you to make confession to this Father? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.269 | That loves his mistress more than in confession | That loues his Mistris more then in consession, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.152 | And fell so roundly to a large confession, | And fell so roundly to a large confession, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iii.44 | Where I intend holy confession. | Where I intend holy Confession. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.ii.41 | Besides, she did intend confession | Besides she did intend Confession |