| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.v.49 | narrow gate, which I take to be too little for pomp to | narrow gate, which I take to be too little for pompe to |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.iv.8 | He vented them, most narrow measure lent me; | He vented then most narrow measure: lent me, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.38 | The passages of alleys, creeks, and narrow lands; |
The passages of allies, creekes, and narrow lands: |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.52 | A narrow lane, an old man, and two boys. | A narrow Lane, an old man, and two Boyes. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.252 | 'Tis too narrow for your mind. | 'tis too narrow for your minde. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.ii.58 | Sirs, you four shall front them in the narrow | You foure shall front them in the narrow |
| Henry V | H5 I.chorus.22 | The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder. | The perillous narrow Ocean parts asunder. |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.201 | Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate, | Their heauy burthens at his narrow gate: |
| Henry V | H5 II.chorus.38 | And bring you back, charming the narrow seas | And bring you backe: Charming the narrow seas |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.239 | Stern Falconbridge commands the narrow seas; | Sterne Falconbridge commands the Narrow Seas, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.viii.3 | Hath passed in safety through the narrow seas, | Hath pass'd in safetie through the Narrow Seas, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.134 | Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world | Why man, he doth bestride the narrow world |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.iv.33 | Good morrow to you. Here the street is narrow; | Good morrow to you: heere the street is narrow: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.viii.28 | Who told me, in the narrow seas that part | Who told me, in the narrow seas that part |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.3 | hath a ship of rich lading wrecked on the narrow seas, | hath a ship of rich lading wrackt on the narrow Seas; |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.8 | Even such, they say, as stand in narrow lanes | Euen such (they say) as stand in narrow Lanes, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.83 | an inch narrow to an ell broad! | an ynch narrow, to an ell broad. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.145 | The narrow-prying father Minola, | The narrow prying father Minola, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.154 | For honour travels in a strait so narrow, | For honour trauels in a straight so narrow, |