| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iv.18 | To recompense your love. Doubt not but heaven | To recompence your loue: Doubt not but heauen |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iii.75 | Yet fortune cannot recompense me better | Yet fortune cannot recompence me better |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.97 | But do not look for further recompense | But doe not looke for further recompence |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.121 | Was not our recompense, resting well assured | Was not our recompence, resting well assur'd |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.91 | If you swear still, your recompense is still | If you sweare still, your recompence is still |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.116 | Then will I think upon a recompense. | Then will I thinke vpon a recompence. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.19 | Pay recompense, if you will grant my suit. | Pay recompence, if you will graunt my suite. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.9 | And, for recompense beside this good, | And for recompenc beside this good, |
| King John | KJ V.iv.15 | He means to recompense the pains you take | He meanes to recompence the paines you take, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.58 | Ay, that is study's godlike recompense. | I, that is studies god-like recompence. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iv.18 | That swiftest wing of recompense is slow | That swiftest Wing of Recompence is slow, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.253 | him to her recompense, and here, by this, is your brother | him to her recompence; and heere, by this is your brother |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.513 | duke. Good my lord, do not recompense me in making | Duke, good my Lord do not recompence me, in making |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.vi.55 | Besides, I'll make a present recompense. | Besides, Ile make a present recompence. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.180 | It pays the hearing double recompense. | It paies the hearing double recompence. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.83 | No, truly, but in friendly recompense. | No truly, but in friendly recompence. |
| Pericles | Per III.iv.17 | My recompense is thanks, that's all; | My recompence is thanks, thats all, |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.49 | It shall be still thy true love's recompense. | It shall be still thy true Loues recompence, |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.62 | Shall be your love and labour's recompense. | Shall be your loue, and labours recompence. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.15 | ‘ When we for recompense have praised the vile, | When we for recompence haue prais'd the vild, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.34 | dinner will not recompense this long stay. Feast your | dinner will not recompence this long stay: Feast your |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.148 | Together with a recompense more fruitful | Together, with a recompence more fruitfull |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.3 | To call for recompense. Appear it to your mind | To call for recompence: appeare it to your minde, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.274 | My master, not myself, lacks recompense. | My Master, not my selfe, lackes recompence. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.i.7 | recompense for your love to lay any of them on you. | recompence for your loue, to lay any of them on you. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.5 | This is to give a dog, and in recompense desire | This is to giue a dogge, and in recompence desire |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.362 | In recompense whereof, he hath married her. | In recompence whereof, he hath married her: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.153 | Then, bootless toil must recompense itself | Then, booteles toyle must recompence it selfe, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.24.1 | Well done, a noble recompense. | Well done, a noble recompence. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.149 | As recompense of our dear services | (As recompence of our deare seruices |