| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.13 | It hath in solemn synods been decreed | It hath in solemne Synodes beene decreed, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.287 | Our certain death. Therefore it is decreed | Our certaine death: therefore it is decreed, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.49 | I love him not, nor fear him – there's my creed. | I loue him not, nor feare him, there's my Creede: |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.63 | Have by a council willingly decreed | Haue by a counsell willingly decreed, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.35 | But, as imperial justice hath decreed, | But as imperiall iustice hath decreed, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.iii.31 | a clog; therefore I have decreed not to sing in my cage. | a clog, therefore I haue decreed, not to sing in my cage: |
| Pericles | Per I.i.58 | Which read and not expounded, 'tis decreed, | Which read and not expounded, tis decreed, |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.15 | In framing an artist, art hath thus decreed, | In framing an Artist, art hath thus decreed, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.146 | Go, get thee to thy love, as was decreed. | Goe get thee to thy Loue as was decreed, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.274 | Where we decreed to bury Bassianus. | Where we decreed to bury Bassianuss |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.vii.8 | It is decreed Hector the great must die. | It is decreed, Hector the great must dye. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.301 | What is decreed must be, and be this so. | What is decreed, must be: and be this so. |