| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL I.i.36 | What prodigal portion have I spent, that I should come | what prodigall portion haue I spent, that I should come |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.18 | goes in the calf's skin that was killed for the prodigal. | goes in the calues-skin, that was kil'd for the Prodigall: |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.36 | The chariest maid is prodigal enough | The chariest Maid is Prodigall enough, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.116 | When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul | When the Bloud burnes, how Prodigall the Soule |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.144 | Prodigal, or the German hunting, in waterwork, is | Prodigall, or the Germane hunting in Waterworke, is |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.v.12 | My noble gossips, you've been too prodigal; | My Noble Gossips, y'haue beene too Prodigall; |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.123 | That is so prodigal to spend your lives? | That is so prodigall to spend your liues? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.9 | Be now as prodigal of all dear grace | Be now as prodigall of all deare grace, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.64 | And spend his prodigal wits in bootless rhymes, | And spend his prodigall wits in booteles rimes. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.129 | Wherein my time, something too prodigal, | Wherein my time something too prodigall |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.v.15 | The prodigal Christian. Jessica my girl, | The prodigall Christian. Iessica my girle, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vi.14 | How like a younger or a prodigal | How like a yonger or a prodigall |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vi.17 | How like the prodigal doth she return, | How like a prodigall doth she returne |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.41 | a prodigal, who dare scarce show his head on the Rialto, | a prodigall, who dare scarce shew his head on the Ryalto, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.v.7 | the story of the Prodigal, fresh and new. Go, knock and | the story of the Prodigall, fresh and new: go, knock and |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.256 | When the tongue's office should be prodigal | When the tongues office should be prodigall, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.31 | Stoop with oppression of their prodigal weight. | Stoupe with oppression of their prodigall weight: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.170 | How many prodigal bits have slaves and peasants | How many prodigall bits haue Slaues and Pezants |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.12 | You must consider that a prodigal course | You must consider, that a Prodigall course |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.279 | I, that I was no prodigal. | I, that I was no Prodigall. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.22 | He's a very fool and a prodigal. | He's a very foole, and a prodigall. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.93 | a bailiff; then he compassed a motion of the Prodigal | (a Bayliffe) then hee compast a Motion of the Prodigall |