| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiii.4 | There lock yourself, and send him word you are dead. | there locke your selfe, / And send him word you are dead: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.93 | Say, wherefore didst thou lock me forth today, | Say wherefore didst thou locke me forth to day, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.95 | I did not, gentle husband, lock thee forth. | I did not gentle husband locke thee forth. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.5 | That lock up your restraint. For you Posthumus, | That locke vp your restraint. For you Posthumus, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.41 | Will force him think I have picked the lock, and ta'en | Will force him thinke I haue pick'd the lock, and t'ane |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iv.2 | What pleasure, sir, we find in life, to lock it | What pleasure Sir, we finde in life, to locke it |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.143 | That she should lock herself from his resort, | That she should locke her selfe from his Resort, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.227 | Sport and repose lock from me day and night, | Sport and repose locke from me day and night: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.118 | Well, I will lock his counsel in my breast; | Well, I will locke his Councell in my Brest, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.80 | To lock such rascal counters from his friends, | To locke such Rascall Counters from his Friends, |
| King John | KJ II.i.369 | And, till it be undoubted, we do lock | And till it be vndoubted, we do locke |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.10 | To lock it in the wards of covert bosom, | To locke it in the wards of couert bosome |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.v.28 | Lock up my doors; and when you hear the drum | Lock vp my doores, and when you heare the drum |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.77 | Pray you, lock hand in hand; yourselves in order set; | Pray you lock hand in hand: your selues in order (set: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.164 | know him; 'a wears a lock. | I know him, a weares a locke. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.103 | For thee I'll lock up all the gates of love, | For thee Ile locke vp all the gates of Loue, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.295 | Deformed; they say he wears a key in his ear and a lock | Deformed, they say he weares a key in his eare and a lock |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.21 | A closet lock and key of villainous secrets; | A Closset Locke and Key of Villanous Secrets, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.252 | not then. I'll lock thy heaven from thee. | not then. Ile locke thy heauen from thee: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.176 | Able to lock Jove from a synod, shall | Able to locke Iove from a Synod, shall |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.ii.10 | To lock up honesty and honour from | to locke vp honesty & honour from |