| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ii.16 | Whither 'tis bent. Most likely 'tis for you. | Whether 'tis bent: most likely, 'tis for you: |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.69.2 | This is most likely! | This is most likely. |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.83 | So likely to report themselves; the cutter | So likely to report themselues; the Cutter |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iv.16.2 | It is not likely | It is not likely, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.152 | It may be, very like. | It may be very likely. |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.391 | For he was likely, had he been put on, | For he was likely, had he beene put on |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.171 | More likely to fall in than to get o'er. | More likely to fall in, then to get o're: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.184 | Choked the respect of likely peril feared, | Choak'd the respect of likely perill fear'd, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.63 | Grant that our hopes, yet likely of fair birth, | Grant that our hopes (yet likely of faire byrth) |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.172 | 'Fore God, a likely fellow! Come, prick Bullcalf | Trust me, a likely Fellow. Come, pricke me Bulcalfe |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.190 | Not seeing what is likely to ensue. | Not seeing what is likely to ensue: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.v.74 | Is likely to beget more conquerors, | Is likely to beget more Conquerors, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.v.2 | No, my lord, nor likely to be slain; for | No my Lord, nor likely to be slaine: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.209 | He's very likely now to fall from him | Hee's very likely now to fall from him, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vi.35 | As likely to be blest in peace and war; | As likely to be blest in Peace and Warre: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vi.74 | Likely in time to bless a regal throne. | Likely in time to blesse a Regall Throne: |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.40.2 | 'Tis likely, | Tis likely, |
| King Lear | KL II.i.10 | Have you heard of no likely wars toward 'twixt | Haue you heard of no likely Warres toward, / 'Twixt |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.103.2 | This is most likely! | This is most likely. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.92 | So likely an ambassador of love. | So likely an Embassador of loue. |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.151 | work! A likely piece of work, that you should find it in | worke? A likely piece of worke, that you should finde it in |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.76.1 | Most likely, sir. | Most likely sir. |
| Pericles | Per V.i.134.1 | Did warrant me was likely. | did warrant me was likely. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.73 | Then is it likely thou wilt undertake | Then is it likely thou wilt vndertake |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.146 | I never thought it possible or likely. | I neuer thought it possible or likely. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.15 | very likely to load our purposes with what they travail | very likely, to loade our purposes / With what they trauaile |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.207 | That he thereby may have a likely guess | That he thereby may haue a likely gesse, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.31 | Nay, most likely, for they are noble sufferers. | Nay most likely, for they are noble suffrers; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.51.2 | 'Tis likely. | Tis likely. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.68 | Then he has won. 'Twas ever likely; | Then he has won: Twas ever likely, |