| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.120 | blowers-up! Is there no military policy how virgins | blowers vp. Is there no Military policy how Virgins |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.73 | Shrewdness of policy too – I grieving grant | Shrodenesse of policie to: I greeuing grant, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vi.116 | I think the policy of that purpose made more in | I thinke the policy of that purpose, made more in |
| As You Like It | AYL V.i.55 | thee with policy; I will kill thee a hundred and fifty | thee with police: I will kill thee a hundred and fifty |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.42 | Honour and policy, like unsevered friends, | Honor and Policy, like vnseuer'd Friends, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.48 | You adopt your policy, how is it less or worse | You adopt your policy: How is it lesse or worse |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.129 | Is all the policy, strength, and defence, | Is all the Policy, Strength, and Defence |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.47 | Hunts not the trail of policy so sure | Hunts not the traile of Policie, so sure |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.107 | Never did base and rotten policy | Neuer did base and rotten Policy |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.146 | And it proceeds from policy, not love. | And it proceedes from Pollicy, not Loue. |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.45 | Turn him to any cause of policy, | Turne him to any Cause of Pollicy, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.221 | The name of hardiness and policy. | The name of hardinesse and policie. |
| Henry V | H5 II.chorus.14 | Shake in their fear, and with pale policy | Shake in their feare, and with pale Pollicy |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.2 | Through which our policy must make a breach. | Through which our Pollicy must make a breach. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.159 | To say the truth, it is your policy | To say the truth, it is your policie, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.82 | To keep by policy what Henry got? | To keepe by policy what Henrie got: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.23 | Me seemeth then it is no policy, | Me seemeth then, it is no Pollicie, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.235 | That he should die is worthy policy; | That he should dye, is worthie pollicie, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.238 | But in my mind that were no policy. | But in my minde, that were no pollicie: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.293 | If York, with all his far-fet policy, | If Yorke, with all his farre-fet pollicie, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.83 | By devilish policy art thou grown great, | By diuellish policy art thou growne great, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.ii.58 | With powerful policy strengthen themselves, | With powrefull Pollicie strengthen themselues, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.65 | 'Tis but his policy to counterfeit, | 'Tis but his policy to counterfet, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.62 | I thought no less; it is his policy | I thought no lesse: it is his Policie, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.259 | Weighed not a hair of his. Plague of your policy! | Weigh'd not a haire of his. Plague of your policie, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.i.17 | It shall be so, this policy will serve. – | It shal be so, this pollicy will serue, |
| King John | KJ II.i.396 | Smacks it not something of the policy? | Smackes it not something of the policie. |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.46 | This policy and reverence of age | This policie, and reuerence of Age, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.510 | We are shame-proof, my lord; and 'tis some policy | We are shame-proofe my Lord: and 'tis some policie, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.196 | Both strength of limb and policy of mind, | Both strength of limbe, and policie of minde, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.266 | in his mood – a punishment more in policy than in | in his moode, (a punishment more in policie, then in |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.14 | That policy may either last so long, | That policie may either last so long, |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.84 | That were some love, but little policy. | That were some Loue, but little Pollicy. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.285 | If she be curst, it is for policy, | If she be curst, it is for pollicie, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.ii.89 | For policy sits above conscience. | For Policy sits aboue Conscience. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.104 | 'Tis policy and stratagem must do | 'Tis pollicie, and stratageme must doe |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.147 | O Lord, sir, 'tis a deed of policy. | O Lord sir, 'tis a deed of pollicie? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.197 | They tax our policy, and call it cowardice, | They taxe our policy, and call it Cowardice, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.i.19 | With all my force, pursuit, and policy. | With all my force, pursuite and pollicy. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iv.9 | O'th't' other side, the policy of those crafty-swearing | O'th'tother side, the pollicie of those craftie swearing |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iv.12 | worth a blackberry. They set me up in policy that | worth a Black-berry. They set me vp in pollicy, that |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iv.16 | begin to proclaim barbarism, and policy grows | began to proclaime barbarisme; and pollicie growes |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.28 | or policy. | or policie. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.30 | policy I hate. I had as lief be a Brownist as a politician. | policie I hate: I had as liefe be a Brownist, as a Politician. |