| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.i.19 | To give this poor petition to the King, | To giue this poore petition to the King, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.130 | Here's a petition from a Florentine | Here's a petition from a Florentine, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.184 | Petition us at home. Sextus Pompeius | Petition vs at home. Sextus Pompeius |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.208 | And a petition granted them – a strange one, | And a petition granted them, a strange one, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.i.20 | It was a bare petition of a state | It was a bare petition of a State |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.176 | Does reason our petition with more strength | Doe's reason our Petition with more strength |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.59 | By laboursome petition, and at last | |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.275 | persuade Harry of England than a general petition of | perswade Harry of England, then a generall Petition of |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.101 | And that is my petition, noble lord; | And that is my petition (Noble Lord:) |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.24 | (offering his petition) | |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.17.1 | Of my petition. | Of my Petition. |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.138 | Heaven knows how dearly. My next poor petition | Heauen knowes how deerely. / My next poore Petition, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.118 | You would have given me your petition that | You would haue giuen me your Petition, that |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.58 | Thy full petition at the hand of Brutus. | Thy full Petition at the hand of Brutus. |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.216 | Now, father, this petition Edward makes | Now father this petition Edward makes, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.16 | petition well that prays for peace. | petition well, that praies for peace. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.14 | I pray you deliver him this petition. | I pray you deliuer him this petition, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.121 | To shame the zeal of my petition to thee | To shame the seale of my petition towards, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.9 | Consort with me in loud and dear petition; | Consort with me in loud and deere petition: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.106.2 | O, my petition was | O my petition was |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.157.1 | To make petition clear. | To make petition cleere. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.201 | My sister her petition in that force, | My Sister her petition in that force, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.87 | her, and still among intermingle your petition of grace | her, and still / Among, intermingle your petition of grace |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.148 | Ne'er entered wanton sound – to my petition | Ne're entred wanton sound,) to my petition |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.222 | At my petition, I beseech you; rather | At my petition; I beseech you, rather |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.227 | Even in these looks I made. But your petition | Euen in these Lookes I made. But your Petition |