| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iv.41 | But puts it off to a compelled restraint; | But puts it off to a compell'd restraint: |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.213 | Madding my eagerness with her restraint, | Madding my eagernesse with her restraint, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.97 | To know the reason of this strange restraint. | To know the reason of this strange restraint: |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.5 | That lock up your restraint. For you Posthumus, | That locke vp your restraint. For you Posthumus, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.132 | The muzzle of restraint, and the wild dog | The muzzle of Restraint; and the wilde Dogge |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.i.27 | Without restraint may have recourse to Calais | Without restraint may haue recourse to Callis, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.52 | Th' enfranchisement of Arthur, whose restraint | Th'infranchisement of Arthur, whose restraint |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.123 | Why, how now, Claudio? Whence comes this restraint? | Why how now Claudio? whence comes this restraint. |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.127 | Turns to restraint. Our natures do pursue, | Turnes to restraint: Our Natures doe pursue |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.4 | But rather wishing a more strict restraint | But rather wishing a more strict restraint |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.71 | Ay, just. Perpetual durance, a restraint, | I iust, perpetuall durance, a restraint |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.15 | Or put upon you what restraint and grievance | Or put vpon you, what restraint or greeuance, |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.89 | Throwing restraint upon us; or say they strike us, | Throwing restraint vpon vs: Or say they strike vs, |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.79 | My love without retention or restraint, | My loue without retention, or restraint, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.40 | their own restraint and disasters. Yet sometime a | their owne restraint, and disasters: Yet sometime a |