| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.12 | When one but of my ordinance stood up | When one but of my ordinance stood vp |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.145.2 | Let ordinance | Let Ord'nance |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.264 | Let all the battlements their ordnance fire. | Let all the Battlements their Ordinance fire, |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.83 | By custom and the ordinance of times | By Custome, and the Ordinance of Times, |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.126 | In second accent of his ordinance. | In second Accent of his Ordinance. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.66 | Why all these things change from their ordinance, | Why all these things change from their Ordinance, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.135 | Was thick embossed with brazen ordinance. | Was thicke imbost with brasen ordynaunce. |
| King John | KJ II.i.218 | By the compulsion of their ordinance | By the compulsion of their Ordinance, |
| King Lear | KL IV.i.67 | That slaves your ordinance, that will not see | That slaues your ordinance, that will not see |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.184 | Either thou wilt die by God's just ordinance | Either thou wilt dye, by Gods iust ordinance |
| Richard III | R3 V.v.31 | By God's fair ordinance conjoin together! | By Gods faire ordinance, conioyne together : |