| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iii.11 | Shall, after three days' open penance done, | Shall, after three dayes open Penance done, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.20 | Now thou dost penance too. Look how they gaze! | Now thou do'st Penance too. Looke how they gaze, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.75 | Let not her penance exceed the King's commission. | Let not her Penance exceede the Kings Commission. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.105 | Madam, your penance done, throw off this sheet, | Madame, your Penance done, / Throw off this Sheet, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iv.17.1 | They should find easy penance. | They should finde easie pennance. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iv.32 | The penance lies on you if these fair ladies | The pennance lyes on you; if these faire Ladies |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iv.43 | line, they need no other penance. That fire-drake did I | Line, they need no other pennance: that Fire-Drake did I |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.427 | A shame for shame, or penance for offence. | A shame for shame, or pennance for offence, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.115 | And bide the penance of each three years' day. | And bide the pennance of each three yeares day. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.123 | no penance, but 'a must fast three days a week. For | no penance, but hee must fast three daies a weeke: for |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.707 | woolward for penance. | woolward for penance. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.268 | An age of poverty, from which lingering penance | An age of pouerty. From which lingring penance |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.260 | Impose me to what penance your invention | Impose me to what penance your inuention |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.89 | And make her bear the penance of her tongue? | And make her beare the pennance of her tongue. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.136 | We may carry it thus for our pleasure and his penance | we may carry it thus for our pleasure, and his pennance, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.64 | My penance is to call Lucetta back | My pennance is, to call Lucetta backe |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.127 | I have done penance for contemning Love, | I haue done pennance for contemning Loue, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.ii.38 | As he in penance wandered through the forest; | As he, in pennance wander'd through the Forrest: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.171 | Come, Proteus, 'tis your penance but to hear | Come Protheus, 'tis your pennance, but to heare |