| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.133 | But that's all one: omittance is no quittance; | But that's all one: omittance is no quittance: |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.171 | is pen, book, and counters; so the acquittance | is Pen, Booke, and Counters; so the Acquittance |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.1 | Now must your conscience my acquittance seal, | Now must your conscience my acquittance seal, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.108 | Rendering faint quittance, wearied and out-breathed, | Rend'ring faint quittance (wearied, and out-breath'd) |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.34 | Sooner than quittance of desert and merit | Sooner then quittance of desert and merit, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.i.14 | As fitting best to quittance their deceit | As fitting best to quittance their deceite, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.124 | To quittance those displeasures he hath done.’ | To quittance those displeasures he hath done, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.161 | Boyet, you can produce acquittances | Boyet, you can produce acquittances |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.10 | bill, warrant, quittance, or obligation, Armigero. | Bill, Warrant, Quittance, or Obligation, Armigero. |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.232 | Your mere enforcement shall acquittance me | Your meere enforcement shall acquittance me |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.285.1 | All use of quittance. | All vse of quittance. |