| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.61 | Contend for empire in thee, and thy goodness | Contend for Empire in thee, and thy goodnesse |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.31 | For the contempt of empire. | For the contempt of Empire. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.i.34 | Of the ranged empire fall! Here is my space. | Of the raing'd Empire fall: Heere is my space, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.186 | The empire of the sea. Our slippery people, | The Empire of the Sea. Our slippery people, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vi.66 | Hath nodded him to her. He hath given his empire | Hath nodded him to her. He hath giuen his Empire |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.ii.22 | As when mine empire was your fellow too | As when mine Empire was your Fellow too, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.i.43 | In top of all design, my mate in empire, | In top of all designe; my Mate in Empire, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.462 | And to the Roman empire; promising | And to the Romane Empire; promising |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.119 | Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands | |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.100 | A cutpurse of the empire and the rule, | A Cutpurse of the Empire and the Rule. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.151 | Had Henry got an empire by his marriage, | Had Henrie got an Empire by his marriage, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.104 | You stand for France, an empire fair and large. | You stand for Fraunce, an Empire faire and large, |
| Pericles | Per II.i.50 | And from their watery empire recollect | And from their watry empire recollect, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.470 | Is the King dead? The empire unpossessed? | Is the King dead? the Empire vnpossest? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.394.1 | May have the world in empire. | May haue the world in Empire. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.186 | And name thee in election for the empire | And name thee in Election for the Empire, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.310 | That saidst I begged the empire at thy hands. | That said'st, I beg'd the Empire at thy hands. |