| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.71 | Are in thy vessel. Let me cut the cable; | Are in thy vessell. Let me cut the Cable, |
| As You Like It | AYL I.iii.81 | Firm and irrevocable is my doom | Firme, and irreuocable is my doombe, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.12 | inexplicable dumb-shows and noise. I would have such a | inexplicable dumbe shewes, & noise: I could haue such a |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.294 | But when I swear, it is irrevocable. | But when I sweare, it is irreuocable: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.247 | And, with thy hand, thy faith irrevocable | And with thy hand, thy faith irreuocable, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.4 | The cable broke, the holding-anchor lost, | The Cable broke, the holding-Anchor lost, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.110 | With forty other serviceable knights, | With fortie other seruicable knights, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.207 | Edward, recount not things irrevocable. | Edward, recount not things irreuocable, |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.17.1 | Will give him cable. | Will giue him Cable. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.334 | I confess me knit to thy deserving with cables of perdurable | I confesse me knit to thy deseruing, with Cables of perdurable |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.31 | hanging. Make the rope of his destiny our cable, for | hanging, make the rope of his destiny our cable, for |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.233 | incensement at this moment is so implacable, that | incensement at this moment is so implacable, that |