| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry V | H5 III.iii.22 | What rein can hold licentious wickedness | What Reyne can hold licentious Wickednesse, |
| King Lear | KL III.i.27 | Or the hard rein which both of them have borne | Or the hard Reine which both of them hath borne |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.654 | Sweet Lord Longaville, rein thy tongue. | Sweet Lord Longauill reine thy tongue. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.655 | I must rather give it the rein, for it runs | I must rather giue it the reine: for it runnes |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.160 | And now I give my sensual race the rein. | And now I giue my sensuall race, the reine, |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.128 | Where every horse bears his commanding rein | Where euery Horse beares his commanding Reine, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.52 | Too much the rein. The strongest oaths are straw | Too much the raigne: the strongest oathes, are straw |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.189 | In such a rein, in full as proud a place | In such a reyne, in full as proud a place |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.48 | Spur them to ruthful work, rein them from ruth! | Spur them to ruthfull worke, reine them from ruth. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.51 | When she will take the rein, I let her run; | When she will take the raine, I let her run, |