| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.310 | As sweet as balm, as soft as air, as gentle – | As sweet as Balme, as soft as Ayre, as gentle. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.64 | And balms applied to you, yet dare I never | And Balmes applyed to you, yet dare I neuer |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.115 | Be drops of balm to sanctify thy head; | Be drops of Balme, to sanctifie thy head: |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.253 | 'Tis not the balm, the sceptre, and the ball, | 'Tis not the Balme, the Scepter, and the Ball, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.17 | Thy balm washed off wherewith thou wast anointed; | Thy Balme washt off, wherewith thou was Annointed: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.viii.41 | My pity hath been balm to heal their wounds, | My pittie hath beene balme to heale their wounds, |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.170 | I was a chaste wife to my grave. Embalm me, | I was a chaste Wife, to my Graue: Embalme me, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.215 | The argument of your praise, balm of your age, | The argument of your praise, balme of your age, |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.96 | This rest might yet have balmed thy broken sinews | |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.39 | Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, | Balme of hurt Mindes, great Natures second Course, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.62 | With juice of balm and every precious flower. | With iuyce of Balme; and euery precious flowre, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.251 | To have their balmy slumbers waked with strife. | To haue their Balmy slumbers wak'd with strife. |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.16 | O balmy breath, that dost almost persuade | Oh Balmy breath, that dost almost perswade |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.63 | Shrouded in cloth of state, balmed and entreasured | Shrowded in Cloth of state, balmed and entreasured |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.172 | The which no balm can cure but his heart-blood | The which no balme can cure, but his heart blood |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.55 | Can wash the balm off from an anointed king. | Can wash the Balme from an anoynted King; |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.206 | With mine own tears I wash away my balm, | With mine owne Teares I wash away my Balme, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.13 | I pour the helpless balm of my poor eyes. | I powre the helplesse Balme of my poore eyes. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.46 | Balm his foul head in warm distilled waters, | Balme his foule head in warme distilled waters, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.41 | Would cast the gorge at, this embalms and spices | Would cast the gorge at. This Embalmes and Spices |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.16 | We sent to thee, to give thy rages balm, | We sent to thee, to giue thy rages Balme, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.62 | But, saying thus, instead of oil and balm, | But saying thus, instead of Oyle and Balme, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iv.31 | Convent in their behoof; our richest balms, | Convent in their behoofe, our richest balmes |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.v.4 | Balms and gums and heavy cheers, | Balmes, and Gummes, and heavy cheeres, |