| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.213 | Which we ascribe to heaven. The fated sky | Which we ascribe to heauen: the fated skye |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vi.77 | thy soldiership will subscribe for thee. Farewell. | thy souldiership, / Will subscribe for thee: Farewell. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.v.30 | I will subscribe for thee, thou art both knave and | I will subscribe for thee, thou art both knaue and |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.96 | I stood ingaged; but when I had subscribed | I stood ingag'd, but when I had subscrib'd |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.ii.16 | Hoo! Hearts, tongues, figures, scribes, bards, poets, cannot | Hoo, Hearts, Tongues, Figure, Scribes, Bards, Poets, cannot |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.v.14 | I will subscribe – gentle adieus and greetings. | (I will subscribe) gentle adieu's, and greetings; |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.82 | Subscribed by th' consuls and patricians, | Subscrib'd by'th' Consuls, and Patricians, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.22 | And therefore must his choice be circumscribed | And therefore must his choyce be circumscrib'd |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.52 | Subscribed it, gave't th' impression, placed it safely, | Subscrib'd it, gau't th' impression, plac't it safely, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.viii.107 | Ascribe we all! When, without stratagem, | Ascribe we all: when, without stratagem, |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.328 | Only he hath not yet subscribed this: | Onely he hath not yet subscribed this: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.44 | If I have fewest, I subscribe in silence. | If I haue fewest, I subscribe in silence. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iv.11 | Ascribes the glory of his conquest got | Ascribes the Glory of his Conquest got, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.38 | I will subscribe and say I wronged the Duke. | I will subscribe, and say I wrong'd the Duke. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.75 | made parchment? That parchment, being scribbled | made Parchment; that Parchment being scribeld |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.1.2 | with short silver wands; next them two Scribes, in | with short siluer wands; next them two Scribes in |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.1.18 | Scribes. The Lords sit next the Bishops. The rest of the | Scribes. The Lords sit next the Bishops. The rest of the |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.315 | Was still inscribed; in which you brought the King | Was still inscrib'd: in which you brought the King |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.ii.18.2 | Thou hast described | Thou hast describ'd |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.426 | And cancel every canon that prescribes | And cancell euery cannon that prescribes, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.14 | Will't please your highness to subscribe, or no? | Wilt please your highnes to subscribe or no? |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.48 | Give me the paper; I'll subscribe to it; | Giue me the paper, Ile subscribe to it, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.276.1 | Prescribe not us our duty. | Prescribe not vs our dutie. |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.24 | And the King gone tonight? prescribed his power? | And the King gone to night? Prescrib'd his powre, |
| King Lear | KL III.vii.64 | All cruels else subscribe.’ But I shall see | All Cruels else subscribe: but I shall see |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.19 | Your oaths are passed; and now subscribe your names, | Your oathes are past, and now subscribe your names: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.23 | Subscribe to your deep oaths, and keep it too. | Subscribe to your deepe oathes, and keepe it to. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.89 | As I subscribe not that, nor any other, | (As I subscribe not that, nor any other, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.35 | them I will describe them and, according to my description | them, I will describe them, and according to my description |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.231 | Methinks you prescribe to yourself very preposterously. | Methinkes you prescribe to your selfe very preposterously. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.38 | the challenge, subscribed for Cupid, and challenged him | the Challenge, subscrib'd for Cupid, and challeng'd him |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.54 | shortly hear from him, or I will subscribe him a coward. | shortly heare from him, or I will subscribe him a coward, |
| Pericles | Per II.v.70 | Did e'er solicit, or my hand subscribe | Did ere solicite, or my hand subscribe |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.154 | This we prescribe, though no physician; | This we prescribe, though no Physition, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iv.50 | They shall subscribe them for large sums of gold | They shall subscribe them for large summes of Gold, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.81 | Sir, to your pleasure humbly I subscribe. | Sir, to your pleasure humbly I subscribe: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.84 | Prescribe to other, as each other's leech. | Prescribe to other, as each others Leach. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.71 | From where he circumscribed with his sword | From whence he circumscribed with his Sword, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iv.4 | And if thy stumps will let thee play the scribe. | And if thy stumpes will let thee play the Scribe. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.56 | Patterned by that the poet here describes, | Patern'd by that the Poet heere describes, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.129 | And we will all subscribe to thy advice. | And we will all subscribe to thy aduise: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.116 | Why we ascribe it to him; yet all his virtues, | Why we ascribe it to him, yet all his vertues, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.146 | Will you subscribe his thought, and say he is? | Will you subscribe his thought, and say he is? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.207 | How he describes himself! | How he describes himselfe. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.105 | For Hector in his blaze of wrath subscribes | For Hector in his blaze of wrath subscribes |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.133 | That my master, being scribe, to himself should write the letter? | That my master being scribe, / To himselfe should write the Letter? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.146 | To which I thus subscribe: Sir Valentine. | To which I thus subscribe: Sir Valentine, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.89.1 | Thou hast well described him. | Thou ha'st well describde him, |