| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.362 | In a most curious mantle, wrought by th' hand | In a most curious Mantle, wrought by th'hand |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.167 | But look, the morn in russet mantle clad | But looke, the Morne in Russet mantle clad, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.ii.2 | Whose pitchy mantle overveiled the earth. | Whose pitchy Mantle ouer-vayl'd the Earth. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.ii.22 | So we, well covered with the night's black mantle, | So wee, well couer'd with the Nights black Mantle, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.v.1.7 | richly habited in a mantle, etc., train borne by a Lady; | richly habited in a Mantle, &c. Traine borne by a Lady: |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.171 | You all do know this mantle. I remember | You all do know this Mantle, I remember |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.188 | And in his mantle muffling up his face, | And in his Mantle, muffling vp his face, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.199 | Antony plucks off the mantle | |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.127 | drinks the green mantle of the standing pool; who is | drinkes the green Mantle of the standing Poole: who is |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.89 | Do cream and mantle like a standing pond, | Do creame and mantle like a standing pond, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.141 | And as she fled, her mantle she did fall, | And as she fled, her mantle she did fall; |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.144 | And finds his trusty Thisbe's mantle slain. | And findes his Thisbies Mantle slaine; |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.260 | Lion tears Thisbe's mantle. Exit | |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.274 | Thy mantle good – | Thy mantle good; |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.15 | With thy black mantle till strange love grow bold, | With thy Blacke mantle, till strange Loue grow bold, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.67 | Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle | Begin to chace the ignorant fumes that mantle |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.63 | Not Juno's mantle fairer then your tresses, | Not Iunos Mantle fairer then your Tresses, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.25 | By casting her black mantle over both, | By casting her blacke mantle over both |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.32 | you see, there is such unity in the proofs: the mantle of | you see, there is such vnitie in the proofes. The Mantle of |