| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.v.11 | third is up, till death enlarge his confine. | third is vp, till death enlarge his Confine. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.77 | Fie, you confine yourself most unreasonably. | Fye, you confine your selfe most vnreasonably: |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.110 | Our pleasure his full fortune doth confine, | Our pleasure, his full Fortune, doth confine, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.156 | To his confine. And of the truth herein | To his Confine. And of the truth heerein, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.187 | To England send him, or confine him where | To England send him: Or confine him where |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.119 | Hath wrought the mure that should confine it in | Hath wrought the Mure, that should confine it in, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.230 | Into our hands, and to confine yourself | Into our hands, and to Confine your selfe |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.246 | This kingdom, this confine of blood and breath, | This kingdome, this Confine of blood, and breathe |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.143 | Of his confine. You should be ruled and led | Of his confine: you should be rul'd, and led |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.27 | Put into circumscription and confine | Put into Circumscription, and Confine, |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.75 | Confine yourself but in a patient list. | Confine your selfe but in a patient List, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.274 | Refusing her grand hests, she did confine thee, | Refusing her grand hests, she did confine thee |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.7 | Ay, but you must confine yourself within the | I, but you must confine your selfe within the |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.9 | Confine! I'll confine myself no finer than I am. | Confine? Ile confine my selfe no finer then I am: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.73 | do: confine her to a place where the light may rather | doe, Confine her to a place, where the light / May rather |