| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.107 | The ghostly father now hath done his shrift. | The Ghostly Father now hath done his Shrift. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.46 | Look you, sir, here comes your ghostly father. | Looke you Sir, heere comes your ghostly Father: |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.126 | A ghostly father, belike. Who knows that Lodowick? | A ghostly Father, belike: / Who knowes that Lodowicke? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.192 | Hence will I to my ghostly Friar's close cell, | Hence will I to my ghostly Fries close Cell, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.41 | With Rosaline, my ghostly father? No. | With Rosaline, my ghostly Father? No, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.vi.21 | Good even to my ghostly confessor. | Good euen to my ghostly Confessor. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.50 | Being a divine, a ghostly confessor, | Being a Diuine, a Ghostly Confessor, |