| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.426 | And cancel every canon that prescribes | And cancell euery cannon that prescribes, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.276.1 | Prescribe not us our duty. | Prescribe not vs our dutie. |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.24 | And the King gone tonight? prescribed his power? | And the King gone to night? Prescrib'd his powre, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.231 | Methinks you prescribe to yourself very preposterously. | Methinkes you prescribe to your selfe very preposterously. |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.154 | This we prescribe, though no physician; | This we prescribe, though no Physition, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.84 | Prescribe to other, as each other's leech. | Prescribe to other, as each others Leach. |