| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vii.30 | You see it lawful then. It is no more | You see it lawfull then, it is no more, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vii.38 | That time and place with this deceit so lawful | That time and place with this deceite so lawfull |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vii.45 | Is wicked meaning in a lawful deed, | Is wicked meaning in a lawfull deede; |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vii.46 | And lawful meaning in a lawful act, | And lawfull meaning in a lawfull act, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.107 | Forborne the getting of a lawful race, | Forborne the getting of a lawfull Race, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iii.65 | not lawful. | not lawfull. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.323 | Where he shall answer by a lawful form, | Where he shall answer by a lawfull Forme |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.46 | To suffer lawful censure for such faults | To suffer lawfull Censure for such faults |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.130.1 | To use my lawful sword! | to vse my lawfull Sword. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.163 | set down by lawful counsel, and straight away for | set downe by lawfull Counsell, and straight away for |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.161 | Me of my lawful pleasure she restrained | Me of my lawfull pleasure she restrain'd, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.32 | Her father and myself, lawful espials, | Her Father, and my selfe (lawful espials) |
| Henry V | H5 IV.viii.116 | Is it not lawful, an please your majesty, to tell | Is it not lawfull and please your Maiestie, to tell |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.65 | The first-begotten and the lawful heir | The first begotten, and the lawfull Heire |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.61 | Doubting thy birth and lawful progeny. | Doubting thy Birth and lawfull Progenie. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.140 | And therein reverenced for their lawful king. | And therein reuerenc'd for their lawfull King. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.4 | To entertain great England's lawful king. | To entertaine great Englands lawfull King. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.137 | An if he may, then am I lawful king; | And if he may, then am I lawfull King: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.150 | My conscience tells me he is lawful king. | My Conscience tells me he is lawfull King. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.ii.23 | Before a true and lawful magistrate | Before a true and lawfull Magistrate, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.86 | Before thy sovereign and thy lawful king? | Before thy Soueraigne, and thy lawfull King? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.29 | Of England's true-anointed lawful King. | Of Englands true anoynted lawfull King. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.32 | Am come to crave thy just and lawful aid; | Am come to craue thy iust and lawfull ayde: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.57 | To England's King in lawful marriage. | To Englands King, in lawfull Marriage. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.115 | To link with him that were not lawful chosen. | To linke with him, that were not lawfull chosen. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.88 | Against his brother and his lawful king? | Against his Brother, and his lawfull King. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.53 | Who deemed our marriage lawful. Wherefore I humbly | Who deem'd our Marriage lawful. Wherefore I humbly |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.226 | Prove but our marriage lawful, by my life | Proue but our Marriage lawfull, by my Life |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.241 | Have all true rites and lawful ceremonies, | Haue all true Rites, and lawfull Ceremonies, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.336 | To break a lawful and religious vow? | To breake a lawfull and religious vowe. |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.35 | Why, is it lawful for a man to kill, | Why is it lawfull for a man to kill, |
| King John | KJ I.i.9 | Arthur Plantagenet, lays most lawful claim | Arthur Plantaginet, laies most lawfull claime |
| King John | KJ II.i.95 | That thou hast underwrought his lawful king, | That thou hast vnder-wrought his lawfull King, |
| King John | KJ II.i.222 | But on the sight of us your lawful King, | But on the sight of vs your lawfull King, |
| King John | KJ III.i.172 | Then, by the lawful power that I have, | Then by the lawfull power that I haue, |
| King John | KJ III.i.179.2 | O, lawful let it be | O lawfull let it be |
| King John | KJ III.i.186 | Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong. | Let it be lawfull, that Law barre no wrong: |
| King Lear | KL I.i.253 | Be it lawful I take up what's cast away. | Be it lawfull I take vp what's cast away. |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.116 | Got 'tween the lawful sheets. | got 'tweene the lawfull sheets. |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.261 | Their papers is more lawful. | Their Papers is more lawfull. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.283 | Our loving lawful and our faith not torn. | Our louing lawfull, and our fayth not torne. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.215 | lawful trade? | lawfull trade? |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.112 | Are of two houses: lawful mercy is | Are of two houses: lawfull mercie, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.15 | mind, but yet I will be content to be a lawful hangman. | minde, but yet I will bee content to be a lawfull hangman: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.9 | And that no lawful means can carry me | And that no lawful meanes can carrie me |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.vi.50 | And, in the lawful name of marrying, | And in the lawfull name of marrying, |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.51 | If it prove lawful prize, he's made for ever. | If it proue lawfull prize, he's made for euer. |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.140 | With meditations lawful? | With meditations lawfull? |
| Pericles | Per I.i.83 | Who, fingered to make man his lawful music, | Who finger'd to make man his lawfull musicke, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.74 | Because we thought ourself thy lawful king. | Because we thought our selfe thy lawfull King: |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.8 | Be it lawful that I invocate thy ghost | Be it lawfull that I inuocate thy Ghost, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.187 | What lawful quest have given their verdict up | What lawfull Quest haue giuen their Verdict vp |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.202 | O, make them joyful, grant their lawful suit! | O make them ioyfull, grant their lawfull suit. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.29 | Rest thy unrest on England's lawful earth, | Rest thy vnrest on Englands lawfull earth, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.29 | this be not a lawful cause for me to leave his service, | this be not a lawfull cause for me to leaue his seruice, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.301 | That is another's lawful promised love. | That is anothers lawfull promist Loue. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.20 | To hurt by being just; it is as lawful, | To hurt by being iust; it is as lawfull: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.ii.11 | Th' access of gentle visitors! Is't lawful, pray you, | Th' accesse of gentle visitors. Is't lawfull pray you |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.105 | You hear my spell is lawful. (To Leontes) Do not shun her | You heare my Spell is lawfull: doe not shun her, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.111.1 | Lawful as eating. | Lawfull as Eating. |