| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.96 | I'll play the penitent to you; but mine honesty | Ile play the penitent to you. But mine honesty, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.ii.52 | Are penitent for your default today. | Are penitent for your default to day. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.10 | The penitent instrument to pick that bolt, | The penitent Instrument to picke that Bolt, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.4 | Didst ever hear a man so penitent? | Didst euer heare a man so penitent? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.27 | Call Warwick patron, and be penitent? | Call Warwicke Patron, and be penitent, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.47 | is a more penitent trade than your bawd. He doth | is a more penitent Trade then your Bawd: he doth |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.172 | of the penitent to be so bared before his death. You | of the penitent to be so bar'de before his death: you |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.472 | And so deep sticks it in my penitent heart | And so deepe sticks it in my penitent heart, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.63 | Exceed three days. In faith, he's penitent: | Exceed three dayes. Infaith hee's penitent: |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.220 | To see you are become so penitent. | To see you are become so penitent. |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.28 | In virtue than in vengeance. They being penitent, | In vertue, then in vengeance: they, being penitent, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.239 | Thy penitent reformed. But we have been | Thy Penitent reform'd: but we haue been |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.ii.6 | desire to lay my bones there. Besides, the penitent King, | desire to lay my bones there. Besides, the penitent King |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.ii.22 | penitent, as thou call'st him, and reconciled king, my | penitent (as thou calst him) and reconciled King my |