| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.214 | Gives us free scope, only doth backward pull | Giues vs free scope, onely doth backward pull |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.67 | I love to cope him in these sullen fits, | I loue to cope him in these sullen fits, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.68 | But, in the gross and scope of mine opinion, | But in the grosse and scope of my Opinion, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.37 | To business with the King, more than the scope | To businesse with the King, more then the scope |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.65 | As e'er my conversation coped withal. | As ere my Conuersation coap'd withall. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.229 | An anchor's cheer in prison be my scope, | |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.165 | And curbs himself even of his natural scope | And curbes himselfe, euen of his naturall scope, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.ii.95.1 | We should have coped withal. | Wee should haue coap'd withall. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.39 | But, being moody, give him time and scope, | But being moodie, giue him Line, and scope, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.176 | And the offender granted scope of speech, | And the Offendor graunted scope of speech, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.230 | Unworthy though thou art, I'll cope with thee, | Vnworthy though thou art, Ile cope with thee, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iii.24 | He is a man, and, Clifford, cope with him. | He is a man, and Clifford cope with him. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.78 | To cope malicious censurers, which ever, | To cope malicious Censurers, which euer, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.107 | Be angry when you will, it shall have scope; | Be angry when you will, it shall haue scope: |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.61 | And, last of all, although I scorn to cope | And last of all, although I scorne to cope |
| King John | KJ III.iv.154 | No scope of nature, no distempered day, | No scope of Nature, no distemper'd day, |
| King John | KJ V.ii.122 | And, as you answer, I do know the scope | And, as you answer, I doe know the scope |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.289 | But let his disposition have that scope | But let his disposition haue that scope |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.122.1 | I come to cope. | I come to cope. |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.i.64 | With any scruple. Your scope is as mine own, | With any scruple: your scope is as mine owne, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.126 | So every scope by the immoderate use | So euery Scope by the immoderate vse |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iii.35 | Sith 'twas my fault to give the people scope, | Sith 'twas my fault, to giue the people scope, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.73.1 | To a determined scope. | To a determin'd scope. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.232 | Now, good my lord, give me the scope of justice. | Now, good my Lord, giue me the scope of Iustice, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.409 | We freely cope your courteous pains withal. | We freely cope your curteous paines withall. |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.86 | He hath, and is again, to cope your wife. | He hath, and is againe to cope your wife. |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.121 | breakfast in the cheapest country under the cope, shall | breakefast in the cheapest countrey vnder the coap, shall |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.112 | His coming hither hath no further scope | His comming hither hath no further scope, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.140 | Swellest thou, proud heart? I'll give thee scope to beat, | Swell'st thou prowd heart? Ile giue thee scope to beat, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.141 | Since foes have scope to beat both thee and me. | Since Foes haue scope to beat both thee and me. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.34 | That my pent heart may have some scope to beat, | That my pent heart may haue some scope to beat, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.130 | Let them have scope! Though what they will impart | Let them haue scope, though what they will impart, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.316 | Remember whom you are to cope withal – | Remember whom you are to cope withall, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.ii.18 | And, she agreed, within her scope of choice | And shee agree, within her scope of choise, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.75 | That copest with death himself to 'scape from it. | That coap'st with death himselfe, to scape fro it: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.75.2 | 'Tis conceived to scope. | 'Tis conceyu'd, to scope |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.5 | The scope of justice. Till now, myself, and such | The scope of Iustice. Till now, my selfe and such |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.33 | They say he yesterday coped Hector in the | They say he yesterday cop'd Hector in the |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.261 | And cull their flower, Ajax shall cope the best. | And cull their flowre, Aiax shall cope the best. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.174.1 | Or futurely can cope. | Or futurely can cope. |