| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.143 | Yet I express to you a mother's care. | Yet I expresse to you a mothers care, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.329 | Resolvedly more leisure shall express. | Resoluedly more leasure shall expresse: |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.334 | That you express content; which we will pay | That you expresse Content: which we will pay, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.381 | Neither rhyme nor reason can express how | Neither rime nor reason can expresse how |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.1 | I pray you, daughter, sing, or express yourself | I pray you daughter sing, or expresse your selfe |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.74 | Wave thus to express his disposition, | Waue thus to expresse his disposition, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.132 | The Senate's courtesy? Let deeds express | The Senates Courtesie? Let deeds expresse |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.55 | Ere he express himself or move the people | Ere he expresse himselfe, or moue the people |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.iv.13 | Could best express how slow his soul sailed on, | Could best expresse how slow his Soule sayl'd on, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.112 | Express impatience, lest you stir up mine. | Expresse Impatience, least you stirre vp mine: |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.185 | May do t' express his love and friending to you, | May doe t' expresse his loue and friending to you, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.305 | and moving how express and admirable, in action how | and mouing how expresse and admirable? in Action, how |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iv.6 | We shall express our duty in his eye. | We shall expresse our dutie in his eye, |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.105 | off: and we give express charge, that in our marches | off: and we giue expresse charge, that in our Marches |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iii.20 | From him I have express commandment | From him I haue expresse commandement, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.64 | Let me have your express opinions | Let me haue your expresse opinions, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.18 | I can express no kinder sign of love | I can expresse no kinder signe of Loue |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.ii.25 | As I in justice and true right express it. | As I in iustice, and true right expresse it. |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.190 | Be this a token to express my joy, | Be this a token to expresse my ioy, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.142 | The sums I have collected shall express. | The summes I haue collected shall expresse: |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.234 | As bid me tell my tale in express words, | As bid me tell my tale in expresse words: |
| King Lear | KL I.i.36 | Meantime we shall express our darker purpose. | Meane time we shal expresse our darker purpose. |
| King Lear | KL IV.iii.17 | Who should express her goodliest. You have seen | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.120 | That shall express my true love's fasting pain. | That shall expresse my true-loues fasting paine. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.148 | My words express my purpose. | My words expresse my purpose. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.162 | and an express command, under penalty, to deliver his | and an expresse command, vnder penaltie, to deliuer his |
| Pericles | Per II.ii.8 | It pleaseth you, my royal father, to express | It pleaseth you (my royall Father) to expresse |
| Pericles | Per IV.iii.44 | In glittering golden characters express | in glittring gold? characters expres |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.77 | sure of it. To express the like kindness, myself, that have | sure of it, to expresse / The like kindnesse my selfe, that haue |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.84 | might express some part of our zeals, we should think | might expresse some part of our zeales, we should thinke |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.74 | These well express in thee thy latter spirits. | These well expresse in thee thy latter spirits: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.165 | With that which here his passion doth express? | With that which here his passion doth expresse? |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.i.13 | the rather to express myself. You must know of me | the rather to expresse my selfe: you must know of mee |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.229 | Stand for express will, all the world must perish. | Stand for expresse will, all the world must perish. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.ii.8 | To the contrary I have express commandment. | To the contrary I haue expresse commandment. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.26 | Being counted falsehood, shall, as I express it, | Being counted Falsehood, shall (as I expresse it) |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.25 | cannot be able to express it. | cannot be able to expresse it. |