| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.112 | The contract you pretend with that base wretch, | The Contract you pretend with that base Wretch, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.250 | To temper poisons for her, still pretending | To temper poysons for her, still pretending |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.6 | And none your foes but such as shall pretend | And none your Foes, but such as shall pretend |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.54 | Pretend some alteration in good will? | Pretend some alteration in good will? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vii.57 | Why shall we fight, if you pretend no title? | Why shall we fight, if you pretend no Title? |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.105 | And our pretended quarrel is truly just, | And our pretended quarell is truly iust, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iv.24.1 | What good could they pretend? | What good could they pretend? |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.228 | with his comfort, swallowed his vows whole, pretending | with his comfort: swallowed his vowes whole, pretending |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.45 | Whom you pretend to honour and adore, | Whom you pretend to Honour and Adore, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vi.37 | Of their disguising and pretended flight, | Of their disguising and pretended flight: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.210 | In the pretended celebration. Queens, | In the pretended Celebration: Queenes |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.158 | He of the two pretenders that best loves me | He of the two Pretenders, that best loves me |