| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.66 | I would I had, so I had broke thy pate | I would I had, so I had broke thy pate |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.ii.65 | For she will score your fault upon my pate. | For she will scoure your fault vpon my pate: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.ii.82 | I have some marks of yours upon my pate, | I haue some markes of yours vpon my pate: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.78 | Back, slave, or I will break thy pate across. | Backe slaue, or I will breake thy pate a-crosse. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.75 | the plain bald pate of Father Time himself. | the plaine bald pate of Father time himselfe. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.228 | Ay, and let none enter, lest I break your pate. | I, and let none enter, least I breake your pate. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.74 | Break any breaking here, and I'll break your knave's pate. | Breake any breaking here, and Ile breake your knaues pate. |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.i.7 | What got he by that? You have broke his pate | What got he by that? you haue broke his pate |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.569 | Who calls me villain? Breaks my pate across? | Who calles me Villaine? breakes my pate a-crosse? |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.78 | the pate of a politician, which this ass now o'erreaches; | the Pate of a Polititian which this Asse o're Offices: |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.105 | recoveries, to have his fine pate full of fine dirt? Will | Recoueries, to haue his fine Pate full of fine Dirt? will |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.278 | Singeing his pate against the burning zone, | Sindging his pate against the burning Zone, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.i.30 | 'twere not as good deed as drink to break the pate on | t'were not as good a deed as drinke, to break the pate of |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iii.31 | fear the shot here, here's no scoring but upon the pate. | fear the shot heere: here's no scoring, but vpon the pate. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.54 | Tell him I'll knock his leek about his pate | Tell him Ile knock his Leeke about his Pate |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.39 | or I will peat his pate four days. Bite, I pray you, it is | or I will peate his pate foure dayes: bite I pray you, it is |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.56 | heal your pate. | heale your pate. |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.64 | your pate. | your pate. |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.159 | stoop; a black beard will turn white; a curled pate will | stoope, a blacke Beard will turne white, a curl'd Pate will |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.82 | Do pelt so fast at one another's pate | Doe pelt so fast at one anothers Pate, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.135 | And chop away that factious pate of his. | And chop away that factious pate of his. |
| King John | KJ II.i.568 | That broker that still breaks the pate of faith, | That Broker, that still breakes the pate of faith, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.178 | There is either liquor in his pate or money in his purse | there is eyther liquor in his pate, or mony in his purse, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.125 | Comes from my pate as birdlime does from frieze – | comes from my pate, as Birdlyme do's from Freeze, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.117 | your pate. I will carry no crotchets. I'll re you, I'll fa you. | your pate. I will carie no Crochets, Ile Re you, Ile Fa you, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.12 | And rap me well, or I'll knock your knave's pate. | And rap me well, or Ile knocke your knaues pate. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.154 | And through the instrument my pate made way, | And through the instrument my pate made way, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.244 | pass of pate. There's another garment for't. | passe of pate: there's another garment for't. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.17 | Is smoothed by that below. The learned pate | Is smooth'd by that below. The Learned pate |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.161 | Smells from the general weal. Make curled-pate ruffians bald, | Smels from the generall weale. Make curld' pate Ruffians bald |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.223 | By any understanding pate but thine? | By any vnderstanding Pate but thine? |