| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.103 | Unfeeling fools can with such wrongs dispense. | Vnfeeling fools can with such wrongs dispence: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.v.28 | How shall we then dispense with that contract | How shall we then dispense with that contract, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.181 | Canst thou dispense with heaven for such an oath? | Canst thou dispense with heauen for such an oath? |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vii.34 | If honour may dispense for thee with death, | Ifhonor may dispence for thee with death, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.145 | We must of force dispense with this decree. | We must of force dispence with this Decree, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.157 | Might you dispense with your leisure, I would by | Might you dispense with your leysure, I would by |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.44 | What is it? Dispense with trifles. What is it? | what is it? dispence with trifles: what is it? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.ii.88 | Men must learn now with pity to dispense, | Men must learne now with pitty to dispence, |