| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.vii.2 | Caesar himself has work, and our oppression | Casar himselfe ha's worke, and our oppression |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.575 | To make oppression bitter, or ere this | To make Oppression bitter, or ere this, |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.172 | His subjects to oppression and contempt, | His Subiects to oppression, and contempt, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.58 | Of such as your oppression feeds upon, | Of such as your oppression feedes vpon, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.155 | Free from oppression or the stroke of war, | Free from oppression, or the stroke of Warre, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.208 | How under my oppression I did reek | How vnder my oppression I did reeke |
| King John | KJ III.i.88 | This day of shame, oppression, perjury. | This day of shame, oppression, periury. |
| King John | KJ III.i.106 | And our oppression hath made up this league. | And our oppression hath made vp this league: |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.49 | to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged | to finde an idleand fond bondage, in the oppression of aged |
| Pericles | Per I.i.103 | By man's oppression, and the poor worm doth die for't. | By mans oppression, and the poore Worme doth die for't: |
| Richard II | R2 I.iv.14 | To counterfeit oppression of such grief | To counterfeit oppression of such greefe, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.31 | Stoop with oppression of their prodigal weight. | Stoupe with oppression of their prodigall weight: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.184.2 | At thy good heart's oppression. | At thy good hearts oppression. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.24 | Too great oppression for a tender thing. | Too great oppression for a tender thing. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.70 | Need and oppression starveth in thy eyes. | Need and opression starueth in thy eyes, |