| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.51 | Safely, I think: 'twas a contention in public, | Safely, I thinke, 'twas a contention in publicke, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.60 | And pride of their contention did take horse, | And pride of their contention, did take horse, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.9 | The times are wild; contention, like a horse | The Times are wilde: Contention (like a Horse |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.156 | To feed contention in a lingering act; | To feede Contention in a ling'ring Act: |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.10 | place where I could not breed no contention with him; | place where I could not breed no contention with him; |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.ii.6 | No quarrel, but a slight contention. | No Quarrell, but a slight Contention. |
| Othello | Oth II.i.92 | The great contention of the sea and skies | The great Contention of Sea, and Skies |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.i.17 | But when contention and occasion meet, | But when contention, and occasion meetes, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.205 | I would my arms could match thee in contention, | I would my armes could match thee in contention |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.253 | To make me their contention, or to know me, | To make me their Contention, or to know me, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.108 | The grace of the contention; so the deities | The grace of the Contention: So the Deities |