| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iv.13.1 | They sound a parley | They Sound a Parley: |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.123 | Than a command to parle. For Lord Hamlet, | Then a command to parley. For Lord Hamlet, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.197 | In such a parley should I answer thee. | In such a parley should I answere thee. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.30.1 | The trumpet sounds a parley | The Trumpet sounds a Parley. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.157 | Well, by my will we shall admit no parley. | Well, by my will, wee shall admit no Parley. |
| Henry V | H5 III.ii.131 | A parley is sounded | A Parley. |
| Henry V | H5 III.ii.131 | The town sounds a parley. | The Towne sounds a Parley. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.35 | Summon a parley; we will talk with him. | Summon a Parley, we will talke with him. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.36 | Trumpets sound a parley | Trumpets sound a Parley. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.36 | A parley with the Duke of Burgundy! | A Parley with the Duke of Burgonie. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.37 | Who craves a parley with the Burgundy? | Who craues a Parley with the Burgonie? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.130 | We'll crave a parley to confer with him. | Wee'l craue a parley, to conferre with him. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.131 | Sound a parley. Enter Reignier on the walls | Sound. Enter Reignier on the Walles. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.iv.13 | Will parley with Jack Cade their general. | Will parley with Iacke Cade their Generall. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.viii.3 | Sound a parley | Sound a parley. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.viii.4 | sound retreat or parley, when I command them kill? | sound Retreat or Parley / When I command them kill? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.110 | Break off the parley; for scarce I can refrain | Breake off the parley, for scarse I can refraine |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.21 | They stand, and would have parley. | They stand, and would haue parley. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.22 | That we with England will not enter parley, | That we with England will not enter parlie, |
| King John | KJ II.i.78 | To parley or to fight! Therefore prepare! | To parlie or to fight, therefore prepare. |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.238 | And didst in signs again parley with sin; | And didst in signes againe parley with sinne, |
| King John | KJ V.i.68 | Insinuation, parley, and base truce | Insinuation, parley, and base truce |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.5 | To parley with the sole inheritor | To parlee with the sole inheritour |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.122 | Their purpose is to parley, court, and dance, | Their purpose is to parlee, to court, and dance, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.79 | That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley | That such a hideous Trumpet calls to parley |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.21 | What an eye she has! Methinks it sounds a parley to | What an eye she ha's? / Methinkes it sounds a parley to |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.33 | Through brazen trumpet send the breath of parley | Through Brazen Trumpet send the breath of Parle |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.62.1 | The trumpets sound parley without, and answer within; | Parle without, and answere within: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.3.1 | The Trumpeter sounds a parley | Sounds a Parly. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.101 | Say that the Emperor requests a parley | Say, that the Emperour requests a parly |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.159 | He craves a parley at your father's house, | He craues a parly at your Fathers house |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.i.60 | Therefore, above the rest, we parley to you. | Therefore, aboue the rest, we parley to you: |