| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.116 | To fill the mouth of deep defiance up, | To fill the mouth of deepe Defiance vp, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.ii.42 | A brave defiance in King Henry's teeth, | A braue defiance in King Henries teeth: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.61 | Gave him defiance. But which of you was by – | Gaue him defiance. But which of you was by |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.117 | Scorn and defiance, slight regard, contempt, | Scorne and defiance, sleight regard, contempt, |
| Henry V | H5 III.v.37 | Let him greet England with our sharp defiance. | Let him greet England with our sharpe defiance. |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.131 | satisfaction. To this add defiance: and tell him for | satisfaction. To this adde defiance: and tell him for |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.64 | Defiance, traitors, hurl we in your teeth. | Defiance Traitors, hurle we in your teeth. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.88 | I do pronounce defiance to thy face. | I doe pronounce defyaunce to thy face. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.89 | Defiance, Frenchman? We rebound it back, | Defiance French man we rebound it backe, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.35 | Of sweet defiance to her barbarous foes. | Of sweete defiance to her barbarous foes, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.83 | We had not stood upon defiance so. | We had not stood vpon defiance so: |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.86 | Return him my defiance in his face. | returne him my defiance in his face. |
| King John | KJ I.i.21 | Then take my King's defiance from my mouth, | Then take my Kings defiance from my mouth, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.146 | Ne'er issued from his blood. Take my defiance, | Nere issu'd from his blood. Take my defiance, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.130 | Defiance to the traitor, and so die? | Defiance to the Traytor, and so die? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.110 | Which, as he breathed defiance to my ears, | Which as he breath'd defiance to my eares, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.i.13 | But when I meet you armed, as black defiance | But when I meete you arm'd, as blacke defiance, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.91 | Deadly defiance to him and pronounces | Deadly defyance to him, and pronounces |