| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.i.19 | To give this poor petition to the King, | To giue this poore petition to the King, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.22 | All repetition. Let him not ask our pardon; | All repetition: Let him not aske our pardon, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.130 | Here's a petition from a Florentine | Here's a petition from a Florentine, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.184 | Petition us at home. Sextus Pompeius | Petition vs at home. Sextus Pompeius |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.183 | Nay, I prithee now with most petitionary | Nay, I pre'thee now, with most petitionary |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.44 | repetition. | repetition. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.208 | And a petition granted them – a strange one, | And a petition granted them, a strange one, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.163 | You have, I know, petitioned all the gods | you haue, I know, petition'd all the Gods |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.i.20 | It was a bare petition of a state | It was a bare petition of a State |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.72 | and conjure thee to pardon Rome and thy petitionary | and coniure thee to pardon Rome, and thy petitionary |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.144 | Whose repetition will be dogged with curses, | Whose repetition will be dogg'd with Curses: |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.176 | Does reason our petition with more strength | Doe's reason our Petition with more strength |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.59 | By laboursome petition, and at last | |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.22 | at my desires, and my requests, and my petitions, to eat, | at my desires, and my requests, and my petitions, to eate, |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.275 | persuade Harry of England than a general petition of | perswade Harry of England, then a generall Petition of |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.101 | And that is my petition, noble lord; | And that is my petition (Noble Lord:) |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.1.1 | Enter four Petitioners, Peter, the armourer's man, | Enter three or foure Petitioners, the Armorers Man |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.22 | Alas, sir, I am but a poor petitioner | Alas Sir, I am but a poore Petitioner |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.24 | (offering his petition) | |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.80 | Petitioners for blood thou ne'er puttest back. | Petitioners for Blood, thou ne're put'st backe. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.17.1 | Of my petition. | Of my Petition. |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.138 | Heaven knows how dearly. My next poor petition | Heauen knowes how deerely. / My next poore Petition, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.118 | You would have given me your petition that | You would haue giuen me your Petition, that |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.58 | Thy full petition at the hand of Brutus. | Thy full Petition at the hand of Brutus. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.11 | What, urge you your petitions in the street? | What, vrge you your Petitions in the street? |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.216 | Now, father, this petition Edward makes | Now father this petition Edward makes, |
| King John | KJ II.i.197 | To these ill-tuned repetitions. | To these ill-tuned repetitions: |
| King John | KJ II.i.478 | Of soft petitions, pity, and remorse, | Of soft petitions, pittie and remorse, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.207 | O vain petitioner, beg a greater matter! | O vaine peticioner, beg a greater matter, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.82 | The repetition in a woman's ear | The repetition in a Womans eare, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.16 | petition well that prays for peace. | petition well, that praies for peace. |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.82 | All their petitions are as freely theirs | All their petitions, are as freely theirs |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iv.9 | should exhibit their petitions in the street? | should exhibit their petitions in the street? |
| Pericles | Per V.i.245 | And give them repetition to the life. | & giue them repetition to the like, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.164 | But repetition of what thou hast marred, | But repetition of what thou hast marr'd, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.182 | These both put off, a poor petitioner, | These both put off, a poore Petitioner, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.163 | With repetition of ‘ My Romeo!’ | With repetition of my Romeo. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.72 | Let us that are poor petitioners speak too. | let vs that are poore petitioners speake too? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.14 | I pray you deliver him this petition. | I pray you deliuer him this petition, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.121 | To shame the zeal of my petition to thee | To shame the seale of my petition towards, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.9 | Consort with me in loud and dear petition; | Consort with me in loud and deere petition: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.106.2 | O, my petition was | O my petition was |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.157.1 | To make petition clear. | To make petition cleere. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.201 | My sister her petition in that force, | My Sister her petition in that force, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.14 | Since in our terrene state petitions are not | Since in our terrene State petitions are not |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.87 | her, and still among intermingle your petition of grace | her, and still / Among, intermingle your petition of grace |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.148 | Ne'er entered wanton sound – to my petition | Ne're entred wanton sound,) to my petition |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.215 | He would not stay at your petitions, made | He would not stay at your Petitions, made |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.222 | At my petition, I beseech you; rather | At my petition; I beseech you, rather |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.227 | Even in these looks I made. But your petition | Euen in these Lookes I made. But your Petition |