| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.99 | I will bestow some precepts of this virgin, | I will bestow some precepts of this Virgin, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.i.10 | With precepts that would make invincible | With Precepts that would make inuincible |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.58 | And these few precepts in thy memory | And these few Precepts in thy memory, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.142 | This must not be.’ And then I prescripts gave her, | This must not be: and then, I Precepts gaue her, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.i.11 | Marry, sir, thus: those precepts cannot be served; | Marry sir, thus: those Precepts cannot bee seru'd: |
| Henry V | H5 III.iii.26 | As send precepts to the leviathan | As send Precepts to the Leuiathan, to come ashore. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.i.39 | In action all of precept, he did show me | In action all of precept, he did show me |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.24 | Would give preceptial medicine to rage, | Would giue preceptiall medicine to rage, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.58 | Something too wildly, and my father's precepts | Something too wildely, and my Fathers precepts |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.259 | The icy precepts of respect, but followed | The Icie precepts of respect, but followed |