| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.109 | With such full licence as both truth and malice | With such full License, as both Truth and Malice |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.68 | That thou with licence of free foot hast caught | That thou with license of free foot hast caught, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iv.2 | Tell him that by his licence Fortinbras | Tell him that by his license, Fortinbras |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.121 | We license your departure with your son. | We License your departure with your sonne, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.131 | For the fifth Harry from curbed licence plucks | For the Fift Harry, from curb'd License pluckes |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.272 | To barbarous licence; as 'tis ever common | To barbarous license: As 'tis euer common, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.69 | I come to thee for charitable licence, | I come to thee for charitable License, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.iii.7 | a licence to kill for a hundred lacking one. | a License to kill for a hundred lacking one. |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.195 | That fellow is a fellow of much licence. Let him | That fellow is a fellow of much License: Let him |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.42 | full of invention. Taunt him with the licence of ink. If | full of inuention: taunt him with the license of Inke: if |