| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.ii.10 | Approved so to your majesty, may plead | Approu'd so to your Maiesty, may pleade |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.v.88 | You need but plead your honourable privilege. | You neede but pleade your honourable priuiledge. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.9 | The actor may plead pardon. I'll none now. | The Actor may pleade pardon. Ile none now, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.3 | Merchant of Syracuse, plead no more. | Merchant of Siracusa, plead no more. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.156 | Plead you to me, fair dame? I know you not. | Plead you to me faire dame? I know you not: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.91 | Plead on her part some cause to you unknown. | Plead on your part some cause to you vnknowne; |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.3 | That he did plead in earnest, yea or no? |
That he did plead in earnest, yea or no: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.11.1 | Then pleaded I for you. |
Then pleaded I for you. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.273 | If he were mad, he would not plead so coldly. | If he were mad, he would not pleade so coldly: |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.239 | Have made them mules, silenced their pleaders and | Haue made them Mules, silenc'd their Pleaders, / And |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.i.37 | Would be your country's pleader, your good tongue, | Would be your Countries Pleader, your good tongue |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.180 | Pleading so wisely in excuse of it! | Pleading so wisely, in excuse of it. |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.101 | And plead his love-suit to her gentle heart? | And pleade his Loue-suit to her gentle heart. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.29 | If he suppose that I have pleaded truth, | If he suppose that I haue pleaded truth, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.57 | It fitteth not a prelate so to plead. | It fitteth not a Prelate so to plead. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.289 | O Henry, let me plead for gentle Suffolk! | Oh Henry, let me pleade for gentle Suffolke. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.291 | No more, I say; if thou dost plead for him, | No more I say: if thou do'st pleade for him, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.124 | Used to command, untaught to plead for favour. | Vs'd to command, vntaught to pleade for fauour. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vii.99 | I'll bridle it. He shall die, an it be but for pleading so | Ile bridle it: he shall dye, and it bee but for pleading so |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.103 | If not, our swords shall plead it in the field. | If not, our Swords shall pleade it in the field. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.208 | To plead mine innocence, for that dye is on me | To plead mine Innocence; for that dye is on me |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.13 | He pleaded still not guilty, and alleged | He pleaded still not guilty, and alleadged |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.61 | To plead your cause. It shall be therefore bootless | To pleade your Cause. It shall be therefore bootlesse, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.101 | And they shall plead for us and our affairs. | And they shall pleade for vs and our affaires, |
| King John | KJ IV.i.98 | Must needs want pleading for a pair of eyes. | Must needes want pleading for a paire of eyes: |
| King John | KJ V.ii.165 | Plead for our interest and our being here. | Pleade for our interest, and our being heere. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vii.19 | Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued against | Will pleade like Angels, Trumpet-tongu'd against |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.31 | For which I would not plead, but that I must, | For which I would not plead, but that I must, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.32 | For which I must not plead, but that I am | For which I must not plead, but that I am |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.24 | plead his estimation with you. He hath been a bawd. | plead his estimation with you: he hath beene a Bawd. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.175 | saint whom I profess, I will plead against it with my life. | Saint whom I professe, I will plead against it with my life. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.61 | In such a presence here to plead my thoughts; | In such a presence heere to pleade my thoughts: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.113 | Pleading for a lover's fee. | Pleading for a Louers fee. |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.345 | And she for him pleads strongly to the Moor, | And she for him, pleades strongly to the Moore, |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.99 | Pleads he in earnest? Look upon his face. | Pleades he in earnest? Looke vpon his Face, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.86 | An earnest advocate to plead for him. | An earnest aduocate to plead for him. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.346 | Withal obdurate, do not hear him plead; | Withall obdurate, do not heare him pleade; |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.95 | As if the golden fee for which I plead | As if the Golden Fee, for which I plead, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.51 | I go; and if you plead as well for them | I goe: and if you plead as well for them, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.414 | Plead what I will be, not what I have been – | Pleade what I will be, not what I haue beene; |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.192 | I will be deaf to pleading and excuses. | It will be deafe to pleading and excuses, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.152 | Whate'er I read to her, I'll plead for you | What ere I reade to her, Ile pleade for you, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.15 | I'll plead for you myself but you shall have him. | Ile pleade for you my selfe, but you shal haue him. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.i.72 | A re, to plead Hortensio's passion – | Are, to plead Hortensio's passion: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.155 | That he may never more false title plead, | That he may neuer more false Title pleade, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.4 | Plead my successive title with your swords. | Pleade my Successiue Title with your Swords. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.48 | Plead your deserts in peace and humbleness. | Pleade your Deserts in Peace and Humblenesse. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.359 | My nephew Mutius' deeds do plead for him; | My Nephew Mutius deeds do plead for him, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.373 | Brother, for in that name doth nature plead – | Brother, for in that name doth nature plea'd. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.384 | Did graciously plead for his funerals. | Did graciously plead for his Funerals: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.427 | Prince Bassianus, leave to plead my deeds. | Prince Bassianus leaue to plead my Deeds, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.36 | And plead my passions for Lavinia's love. | And plead my passions for Lauinia's loue. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.1.4 | before, pleading | before pleading. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.30 | Ah Lucius, for thy brothers let me plead. | Ah Lucius for thy brothers let me plead, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.35 | They would not pity me; yet plead I must, | They would not pitty me. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.113 | Then go incessantly, and plead to him. | Then goe successantly and plead for him. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.129 | And from the place where you behold us pleading | And from the place where you behold vs now, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.118 | Pleads your fair usage, and to Diomed | Pleades your faire visage, and to Diomed |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.48 | To plead for love deserves more fee than hate. | To plead for loue, deserues more fee, then hate. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.79 | Sir Thurio, fear not you; I will so plead | Sir Thurio, feare not you, I will so pleade, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.97 | To plead for that which I would not obtain, | To plead for that, which I would not obtaine; |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.145 | Plead a new state in thy unrivalled merit, | Plead a new state in thy vn-riual'd merit, |