| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.125 | We will extenuate rather than enforce. | We will extenuate rather then inforce: |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.38 | his death is enrolled in the Capitol; his glory not extenuated, | his death, is inroll'd in the Capitoll: his Glory not extenuated, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.27 | You may not so extenuate his offence | You may not so extenuate his offence, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.120 | Which by no means we may extenuate – | (Which by no meanes we may extenuate) |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.48 | And so extenuate the 'forehand sin. | And so extenuate the forehand sinne: |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.338 | Speak of me as I am: nothing extenuate, | Speake of me, as I am. Nothing extenuate, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.188 | In doing wrong extenuates not wrong, | In doing wrong, extenuates not wrong, |