| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL I.iii.55 | Tell me whereon the likelihood depends. | Tell me whereon the likelihoods depends? |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.48 | and by such two, that would by all likelihood have | and by such two, that would by all likelyhood haue |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.204 | with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it; as thus: | with modestie enough, & likeliehood to lead it; as thus. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.58 | And shape of likelihood, the news was told; | And shape of likely-hood the newes was told: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.45 | A fellow of no mark nor likelihood. | A fellow of no marke, nor likelyhood. |
| Henry V | H5 V.chorus.29 | As, by a lower but loving likelihood, | As by a lower, but by louing likelyhood, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.181 | But what likelihood is in that? | But what likelihood is in that? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.ii.38 | instances, which shall bear no less likelihood than to | instances which shall beare no lesse likelihood, than to |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.234 | Than I can lay it down in likelihood. | Then I can lay it downe in likelihood. |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.137 | What place, what time, what form, what likelihood? | What Place? What Time? / What Forme? What liklyhood? |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.33 | What likelihood of his amendment, lords? | What likelyhood of his amendment Lords. |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.136 | To no apparent likelihood of breach, | To no apparant likely-hood of breach, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.i.12 | And by all likelihood some cheer is toward. | And by all likelihood some cheere is toward. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.6 | Ere I departed, a great likelihood | Ere I departed, a great likelihood |