| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xii.32 | Make thine own edict for thy pains, which we | Make thine owne Edict for thy paines, which we |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.79 | crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to | cramm'd with Graine: Make Edicts for Vsurie, to |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.351 | The benediction of these covering heavens | The benediction of these couering Heauens |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.79 | Some certain edicts and some strait decrees | Some certaine Edicts, and some strait Decrees, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.258 | Yet, notwithstanding such a strait edict, | Yet notwithstanding such a strait Edict, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.28 | Yet Caesar shall go forth; for these predictions | Yet Casar shall go forth: for these Predictions |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.110 | prediction: there's son against father; the King falls | prediction; there's Son against Father, the King fals |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.139 | I am thinking, brother, of a prediction I read | I am thinking Brother of a prediction I read |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.145 | divisions in state, menaces and maledictions against king | |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.159 | Thou out of Heaven's benediction comest | Thou out of Heauens benediction com'st |
| King Lear | KL IV.iii.43 | That stripped her from his benediction, turned her | |
| King Lear | KL IV.vii.58 | And hold your hand in benediction o'er me. | And hold your hand in benediction o're me, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.11 | Our late edict shall strongly stand in force: | Our late edict shall strongly stand in force, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.251 | proclaimed edict and continent canon, which with – O, with – | proclaymed Edict and Continet, Cannon: Which with, ô with, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.54 | You greet with present grace, and great prediction | You greet with present Grace, and great prediction |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.156 | The healing benediction. With this strange virtue | The healing Benediction. With this strange vertue, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.92 | If that the first that did th' edict infringe | If the first, that did th' Edict infringe |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.151 | It stands as an edict in destiny. | It stands as an edict in destinie: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.82 | have caught the Benedick, it will cost him a thousand | haue caught the Benedict, it will cost him a thousand |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.66 | Get you some of this distilled Carduus Benedictus, | Get you some of this distill'd carduus benedictus |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.70 | Benedictus! Why Benedictus? You have some | Benedictus, why benedictus? you haue some |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.71 | moral in this Benedictus. | morall in this benedictus. |
| Pericles | Per I.i.112 | Though by the tenor of our strict edict, | Though by the tenour of your strict edict, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.201 | Spurn at His edict, and fulfil a man's? | Spurne at his Edict, and fulfill a Mans? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.145 | Against thine own edict follows thy sister, | Against this owne Edict followes thy Sister, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.168 | For scorning thy edict, Duke, ask that lady | For scorning thy Edict Duke, aske that Lady |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.598 | trinkets had been hallowed and brought a benediction to | Trinkets had beene hallowed, and brought a benediction to |