| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xii.32 | Make thine own edict for thy pains, which we | Make thine owne Edict for thy paines, which we |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.258 | Yet, notwithstanding such a strait edict, | Yet notwithstanding such a strait Edict, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.11 | Our late edict shall strongly stand in force: | Our late edict shall strongly stand in force, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.251 | proclaimed edict and continent canon, which with – O, with – | proclaymed Edict and Continet, Cannon: Which with, ô with, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.92 | If that the first that did th' edict infringe | If the first, that did th' Edict infringe |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.151 | It stands as an edict in destiny. | It stands as an edict in destinie: |
| Pericles | Per I.i.112 | Though by the tenor of our strict edict, | Though by the tenour of your strict edict, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.201 | Spurn at His edict, and fulfil a man's? | Spurne at his Edict, and fulfill a Mans? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.145 | Against thine own edict follows thy sister, | Against this owne Edict followes thy Sister, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.168 | For scorning thy edict, Duke, ask that lady | For scorning thy Edict Duke, aske that Lady |