| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.94 | That with his peremptory ‘ shall,’ being but | That with his peremptory Shall, being but |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.284 | For we are peremptory to dispatch | For we are peremptory to dispatch |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.16 | O sir, your presence is too bold and peremptory, | O sir, your presence is too bold and peremptory, |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.82 | Pass our accept and peremptory answer. | Passe our accept and peremptorie Answer. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.23 | What, Cardinal, is your priesthood grown peremptory? | What, Cardinall? / Is your Priest-hood growne peremptorie? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.8 | How proud, how peremptory, and unlike himself? | How prowd, how peremptorie, and vnlike himselfe. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.viii.59 | Where peremptory Warwick now remains. | Where peremptorie Warwicke now remaines: |
| King John | KJ II.i.454 | In moral fury half so peremptory, | In mortall furie halfe so peremptorie, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.224 | What peremptory eagle-sighted eye | What peremptory Eagle-sighted eye |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.10 | lofty, his discourse peremptory, his tongue filed, his | lofty, his discourse peremptorie: his tongue filed, his |
| Pericles | Per II.v.74 | Yea, mistress, are you so peremptory? | Yea Mistris, are you so peremptorie? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.131 | I am as peremptory as she proud-minded; | I am as peremptorie as she proud minded: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.iii.71 | Excuse it not, for I am peremptory. | Excuse it not: for I am peremptory. |