| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.99 | Your dangerous lenity. If you are learned, | Your dangerous Lenity: If you are Learn'd, |
| Henry V | H5 III.ii.25 | Good bawcock, bate thy rage! Use lenity, sweet chuck! | Good Bawcock bate thy Rage: vse lenitie sweet Chuck. |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.109 | for when lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the | for when Leuitie and Crueltie play for a Kingdome, the |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.125 | Of mere compassion and of lenity, | Of meere compassion, and of lenity, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.9 | My gracious liege, this too much lenity | My gracious Liege, this too much lenity |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.22 | And what makes robbers bold but too much lenity? | And what makes Robbers bold, but too much lenity? |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.93 | A little more lenity to lechery would do no harm | A little more lenitie to Lecherie would doe no harme |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.123 | Away to heaven respective lenity, | Away to heauen respectiue Lenitie, |