| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.148 | I will buy me a son-in-law in a fair, and toll for | I will buy me a sonne in Law in a faire, and toule for |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.422 | We'll learn our freeness of a son-in-law: | Wee'l learne our Freenesse of a Sonne-in-Law: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.334 | Owen, Owen, the same. And his son-in-law | Owen, Owen; the same, and his Sonne in Law |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.136 | I've heard him utter to his son-in-law, | I'ue heard him vtter to his Sonne in Law, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.274 | And since you could not be my son-in-law, | And since you could not be my sonne in law, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.287 | Your son-in-law is far more fair than black. | Your Son-in-law is farre more Faire then Blacke. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.38 | Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir. | Death is my Sonne in law, death is my Heire, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.3 | And yet we hear not of our son-in-law. | And yet we heare not of our sonne in Law: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.314 | A valiant son-in-law thou shalt enjoy, | A Valliant sonne in-law thou shalt enioy: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.51 | asks Bohemia forgiveness; then embraces his son-in-law; | askes Bohemia forgiuenesse, then embraces his Sonne-in-Law: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.149 | My ill suspicion. This' your son-in-law, | My ill suspition: This your Son-in-law, |