| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.121 | Though you can guess what temperance should be, | Though you can guesse what Temperance should be, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.48.2 | O, temperance, lady! | Oh temperance Lady. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.28 | Be reined again to temperance, then he speaks | Be rein'd againe to Temperance, then he speakes |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.7 | passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that | Passion, you must acquire and beget a Temperance that |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.124 | Ask God for temperance; that's th' appliance only | Aske God for Temp'rance, that's th'appliance onely |
| King Lear | KL IV.vii.24.1 | I doubt not of his temperance. | I doubt of his Temperance. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.92 | As justice, verity, temperance, stableness, | As Iustice, Verity, Temp'rance, Stablenesse, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.227 | a gentleman of all temperance. But leave we him to his | A Gentleman of all temperance. But leaue wee him to his |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.45 | temperance. | temperance. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.46 | Temperance was a delicate wench. | Temperance was a delicate wench. |