| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.57.1 | Nor yoke with him for tribune. | Nor yoake with him for Tribune. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.i.52 | Did put the yoke upon's; which to shake off | Did put the yoake vpon's; which to shake off |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.5 | Will not endure his yoke; and for ourself | Will not endure his yoake; and for our selfe |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.19 | If it be sin to say so, sir, I yoke me | If it be sinne to say so (Sir) I yoake mee |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.37 | die. How a good yoke of bullocks at Stamford fair? | dye. How a good Yoke of Bullocks at Stamford Fayre? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.10 | Come underneath the yoke of government. | Come vnderneath the yoake of Gouernment. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.164 | Or bring him in obedience to your yoke. | Or bring him in obedience to your yoake. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.37 | Ah, Humphrey, can I bear this shameful yoke? | Ah Humfrey, can I beare this shamefull yoake? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.17 | To Fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind | to Fortunes yoake, / But let thy dauntlesse minde |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.23 | To sunder them that yoke so well together. | to sunder them, / That yoake so well together. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vi.49 | We'll yoke together, like a double shadow | Wee'le yoake together, like a double shadow |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.150 | And ever may your highness yoke together, | And euer may your Highnesse yoake together, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.61 | And groaning underneath this age's yoke, | And groaning vnderneath this Ages yoake, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.84 | Our yoke and sufferance show us womanish. | Our yoake, and sufferance, shew vs Womanish. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.49 | Able to yoke their stubborn necks with steel | Able to yoak their stubburne necks with steele, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.39 | I think our country sinks beneath the yoke, | I thinke our Country sinkes beneath the yoake, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iv.13 | Whose souls do bear an equal yoke of love, | Whose soules doe beare an egal yoke of loue. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.163 | our wives are a yoke of his discarded men – very rogues, | our wiues, are a yoake of his discarded men: very rogues, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.81 | Unto his lordship whose unwished yoke | Vnto his Lordship, whose vnwished yoake, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.93 | The ox hath therefore stretched his yoke in vain, | The Oxe hath therefore stretch'd his yoake in vaine, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.187 | an thou wilt needs thrust thy neck into a yoke, wear the | and thou wilt needes thrust thy necke into a yoke, weare the |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.241 | ‘ In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.’ | In time the sauage / Bull doth beare tne yoake. |
| Pericles | Per II.iv.48 | I shall with aged patience bear your yoke. | I shall with aged patience beare your yoake: |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.291 | If then we shall shake off our slavish yoke, | If then we shall shake off our slauish yoake, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.145 | To bear the golden yoke of sovereignty | To beare the Golden Yoake of Soueraigntie, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.111 | Now thy proud neck bears half my burdened yoke, | Now thy proud Necke, beares halfe my burthen'd yoke, |
| Richard III | R3 V.ii.2 | Bruised underneath the yoke of tyranny, | Bruis'd vnderneath the yoake of Tyranny, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.111 | And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars | And shake the yoke of inauspicious starres |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.72 | And brought to yoke the enemies of Rome. | And brought to yoke the Enemies of Rome. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.114 | Captive to thee and to thy Roman yoke, | Captiue to thee, and to thy Romaine yoake, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.108 | For these base bondmen to the yoke of Rome. | For these bad bond-men to the yoake of Rome. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.105 | – yoke you like draught-oxen, and make you plough up | yoke you like draft-Oxen, and make you plough vp |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.95 | Me thy vowed soldier, who do bear thy yoke | Me thy vowd Souldier, who doe beare thy yoke |