| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.ii.8 | eat no fish of Fortune's buttering. Prithee, allow the | eate no Fish of Fortunes butt'ring. Prethee alow the |
| As You Like It | AYL I.i.44 | of nations allows you my better, in that you are the first | of nations allowes you my better, in that you are the first |
| As You Like It | AYL I.i.67 | Therefore allow me such exercises as may become a | therefore allow me such exercises as may become a |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.45 | Allow their officers, and are content | Allow their Officers, and are content |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.3 | since he hath been allowed the name of. But I could | since he hath beene allowed the name of. But I could |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.115 | And though it be allowed in meaner parties – | And though it be allowed in meaner parties |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.17 | But being so allowed. To apprehend thus, | But being so allowed. To apprehend thus, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.38 | Of these delated articles allow. | Of these dilated Articles allow: |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.228 | Yet here she is allowed her virgin crants, | Yet heere she is allowed her Virgin Rites, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.47.1 | Not shriving time allowed. | Not shriuing time allowed. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.i.20 | Why, they will allow us ne'er a | Why, you will allow vs ne're a |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.5 | I well allow the occasion of our arms, | I well allow the occasion of our Armes, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.100 | I do allow this wen to be as familiar | I do allow this Wen to bee as familiar |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.ii.54 | I like them all, and do allow them well, | I like them all, and doe allow them well: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.69 | For competence of life I will allow you, | For competence of life, I will allow you, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.20 | For once allowed the skilful pilot's charge? | For once allow'd the skilfull Pilots Charge? |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.133 | A full hot horse, who being allowed his way, | A full hot Horse, who being allow'd his way |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.83 | Not ours, or not allowed; what worst, as oft | Not ours, or not allow'd; what worst, as oft |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.111 | Scholars allowed freely to argue for her. | Schollers allow'd freely to argue for her. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.4 | And on all sides th' authority allowed. | And on all sides th'Authority allow'd, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.151 | Almost no grave allowed me. Like the lily | Almost no Graue allow'd me? Like the Lilly |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.60 | By our permission, is allowed to make. | (By our permission) is allow'd to make. |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.186 | Allow obedience, if you yourselves are old, | Allow Obedience; if you your selues are old, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.261 | Allow not nature more than nature needs – | Allow not Nature, more then Nature needs: |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.97 | Which, if convenience will not allow, | |
| King Lear | KL III.vii.104 | Allows itself to anything. | |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.231 | The time will not allow the compliment | The time will not allow the complement |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.124 | this damsel, I must keep her at the park; she is allowed | this Damsell, I must keepe her at the Parke, shee is alowd |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.478 | You put our page out – go, you are allowed; | You put our Page out: go, you are alowd. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.216 | If the law would allow it, sir. | If the Law would allow it, sir. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.217 | But the law will not allow it, Pompey; nor it | But the Law will not allow it Pompey; nor it |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.218 | shall not be allowed in Vienna. | shall not be allowed in Vienna. |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.6 | the merriest was put down, and the worser allowed by | the merriest was put downe, and the worser allow'd by |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.300 | The law allows it, and the court awards it. | The Law allowes it, and the Court awards it. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.220 | allowed for your many warlike, courtlike, and learned | allow'd for your many war-like, court-like, and learned |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.222 | allowed sufficiency, yet opinion, a more sovereign mistress | allowed sufficiencie; yet opinion, a more soueraigne Mistris |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.62 | Which to maintain I would allow him odds, | Which to maintaine, I would allow him oddes, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.123 | Free speech and fearless I to thee allow. | Free speech, and fearelesse, I to thee allow. |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.164 | Allowing him a breath, a little scene, | Allowing him a breath, a little Scene, |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.40 | Whose state and honour I for aye allow. | Whose State, and Honor, I for aye allow. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.82 | Doth grace for grace and love for love allow. | Doth grace for grace, and Loue for Loue allow: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iii.41 | And this is all a liberal course allows: | And this is all a liberall course allowes, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.160 | Allowed with absolute power, and thy good name | Allowed with absolute power, and thy good name |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.89 | we are tasted, allow us as we prove. Our head shall go | we are tasted, allow vs as we proue: our head shall goe |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.ii.60 | That will allow me very worth his service. | That will allow me very worth his seruice. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.89 | in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail; nor no | in an allow'd foole, though he do nothing but rayle; nor no |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.189 | in. I heard you were saucy at my gates, and allowed your | in. I heard you were sawcy at my gates, & allowd your |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.57 | shalt hold the opinion of Pythagoras ere I will allow of | shalt hold th'opinion of Pythagoras, ere I will allow of |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.292 | ladyship will have it as it ought to be, you must allow | Ladyship will haue it as it ought to bee, you must allow |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.iv.4.1 | That these times can allow. | That these times can allow. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.185.1 | To her allowing husband! | To her allowing Husband. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.263 | Are such allowed infirmities that honesty | Are such allow'd Infirmities, that honestie |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.i.15 | Now seems to it. Your patience this allowing, | Now seemes to it: your patience this allowing, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.i.29 | Is th' argument of Time. Of this allow, | Is th' argument of Time: of this allow, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.465 | He will allow no speech – which I do guess | He will allow no speech: (which I do ghesse |