| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.118 | With sharp constraint of hunger; better 'twere | With sharpe constraint of hunger: better 'twere, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.ii.16 | By love's own sweet constraint, and will for ever | By loues owne sweet constraint, and will for euer |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.121 | I will confess what I know without constraint. | I will confesse what I know without constraint, |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.97 | Bloody constraint; for if you hide the crown | Bloody constraint: for if you hide the Crowne |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.178 | The prisoner of immured dark constraint, | The prisoner of emured darke constraint, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.91 | And my constraint stands the excuse for thee. | and my constraint stands the excuse for thee. |
| King John | KJ II.i.244 | Than the constraint of hospitable zeal | Then the constraint of hospitable zeale, |
| King John | KJ V.i.28 | I did suppose it should be on constraint, | I did suppose it should be on constraint, |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.54 | 'Tis a good constraint of fortune it belches upon us. | T'is a good constraint of Fortune it belches vpon vs. |