| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.v.74 | With true observance seek to eke out that | With true obseruance seeke to eeke out that |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.5 | By what observance, I pray you? | By what obseruance I pray you. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.iii.22.1 | Or I have no observance. | Or I haue no obseruance. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.227 | him, and relish it with good observance. I found him | him, and rellish it with good obseruance. I found him |
| As You Like It | AYL V.ii.91 | All adoration, duty and observance, | All adoration, dutie, and obseruance, |
| As You Like It | AYL V.ii.93 | All purity, all trial, all observance; | All puritie, all triall, all obseruance: |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.16 | More honoured in the breach than the observance. | More honour'd in the breach, then the obseruance. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.18 | word to the action, with this special observance, that | Word to the Action, with this speciall obseruance: That |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.15 | observance to my mercy. | obseruance to my mercy. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.i.41 | Between you 'greed concerning her observance? | Betweene you 'greed, concerning her obseruance? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.182 | Use all the observance of civility | Vse all the obseruance of ciuillitie |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.190 | observance, engrossed opportunities to meet her, fee'd | obseruance: Ingross'd opportunities to meete her: fee'd |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.167 | To do observance to a morn of May – | To do obseruance for a morne of May) |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.150 | Out of his scattering and unsure observance. | Out of his scattering, and vnsure obseruance: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.31 | With due observance of thy godlike seat, | With due Obseruance of thy godly seat, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.163 | Without observance or respect of any, | Without obseruance or respect of any, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.iv.51 | Tomorrow by the sun, to do observance | To morrow by the Sun, to doe observance |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.69.2 | observance | observance. |