| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.198 | As I could pick my lance. | As I could picke my Lance. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.34 | A distaff to a lance, gilded pale looks; | A Distaffe, to a Lance, guilded pale lookes; |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.122 | Enacted wonders with his sword and lance. | Enacted wonders with his Sword and Lance. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.50 | What will you do, good greybeard? Break a lance, | What will you doe, good gray-beard? / Breake a Launce, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.134 | A braver soldier never couched lance; | A brauer Souldier neuer couched Launce, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.iii.16 | Broached with the steely point of Clifford's lance; | Broach'd with the Steely point of Cliffords Launce: |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.179 | Enter four Heralds, bringing in a coat of armour, a helmet, a lance, and a shield | Enter foure Heraldes bringing in a coate armour, a helmet, a lance, and a shield. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.193 | Receive this lance into thy manly hand; | Receiue this lance into thy manly hand, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.74 | Enter Prince Edward in triumph, bearing in his hand his shivered lance, and the body of the King of Bohemia borne before, wrapped in the colours. They run and embrace him | Enter Prince Edward in tryumph, bearing in his hande his shiuered Launce, and the King of Boheme, borne before, wrapt in the Coullours: They runne and imbrace him. |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.167 | And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; | and the strong Lance of Iustice, hurtlesse breakes: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.64 | Made a foul blot; if tall, a lance ill-headed; | Made a foule blot: if tall, a launce ill headed: |
| Pericles | Per II.ii.50 | To have practised more the whipstock than the lance. | To haue practis'd more the Whipstocke, then the Launce. |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.101 | Receive thy lance; and God defend the right. | Receiue thy Launce, and heauen defend thy right. |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.103 | Go bear this lance to Thomas, Duke of Norfolk. | Go beare this Lance to Thomas D. of Norfolke. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.144 | Let fall thy lance; despair, and die! | Let fall thy Lance, dispaire and dye. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.283 | The splinter of a lance.’ Even so much. | The splinter of a Lance: Euen so much. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.20 | Or tell of babes broached on the lance, or women | Or tell of Babes broachd on the Launce, or women |