| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.217 | Subdued me to her rate. She got the ring, | Subdu'd me to her rate, she got the Ring, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.36 | Answer his emptiness! Caesar, thou hast subdued | Answer his emptinesse; Casar thou hast subdu'de |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xii.47 | Subdue my worthiest self. The witch shall die. | Subdue my worthiest selfe: The Witch shall die, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.74 | His corrigible neck, his face subdued | His corrigible necke, his face subdu'de |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.173 | To make him worthy whose offence subdues him | To make him worthy, whose offence subdues him, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.67.1 | Subdues all pangs, all fears. | Subdues all pangs, all feares. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.ii.5 | A very drudge of Nature's, have subdued me | A very drudge of Natures, haue subdu'de me |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.ii.90 | For then both parties nobly are subdued, | For then both parties nobly are subdu'd, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.46 | Where Charles the Great, having subdued the Saxons, | Where Charles the Great hauing subdu'd the Saxons, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.62 | Subdued the Saxons, and did seat the French | Subdu'd the Saxons, and did seat the French |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.109 | My heart and hands thou hast at once subdued. | My heart and hands thou hast at once subdu'd. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.v.32 | As you fly from your oft-subdued slaves. | As you flye from your oft-subdued slaues. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.173 | And tugged for life, and was by strength subdued. | And tugg'd for Life, and was by strength subdude. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.56 | By many hands your father was subdued; | By many hands your Father was subdu'd, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.82 | Which did subdue the greatest part of Spain; | Which did subdue the greatest part of Spaine; |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.98 | Subdue myself, and be my enemies' friend? | Subdue my selfe, and be my enimies friend, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.46 | Vanquished, subdued, and taken prisoner. | Vanquisht, subdude, and taken prisoner. |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.78 | So is it like we shall not be subdued. | So is it like we shall not be subdude: |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.120 | For him attempting who was self-subdued; | For him attempting, who was selfe-subdued, |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.67 | Death, traitor! Nothing could have subdued nature | Death Traitor, nothing could haue subdu'd Nature |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.174 | glory is to subdue men. Adieu, valour; rust, rapier; be | glorie is to subdue men. Adue Valour, rust Rapier, bee |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.40 | To any lady that subdues a lord. | To any Lady that subdewes a Lord. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.186 | Subdues me quite. Ever till now, | Subdues me quite: Euer till now |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.78 | He doth with holy abstinence subdue | He doth with holie abstinence subdue |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.iii.67 | greater that I am subdued. Would the cook were o' my | greater that I am subdued, would the Cooke were of my |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.81.1 | Subdue him, at his peril. | Subdue him, at his perill. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.112 | Subdue and poison this young maid's affections? | Subdue, and poyson this yong Maides affections? |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.247 | May trumpet to the world. My heart's subdued | May trumpet to the world. My heart's subdu'd |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.330 | Th' inclining Desdemona to subdue | Th'inclyning Desdemona to subdue |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.59 | 'Twould make her amiable and subdue my father | 'T would make her Amiable, and subdue my Father |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.344 | Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes, | Richer then all his Tribe: Of one, whose subdu'd Eyes, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.490 | To whom I am subdued, are but light to me, | To whom I am subdude, are but light to me, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.59 | Subdues and properties to his love and tendance | Subdues and properties to his loue and tendance |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.187 | And seen thee scorning forfeits and subduements, | And seene thee scorning forfeits and subduments, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.44 | And being once subdued in armed tail, | And being once subdu'd in armed taile, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.139 | Subdue before they touch. Think, dear Duke, think | Subdue before they touch, thinke, deere Duke thinke |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.232 | Thus should we do; being sensually subdued, | Thus should we doe, being sensually subdude |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.131 | With joy that you have won. – For the subdued, | With joy that you have won: For the subdude, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.573 | I think affliction may subdue the cheek, | I thinke Affliction may subdue the Cheeke, |