| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.ix.30 | Demurely wake the sleepers. Let us bear him | demurely wake the sleepers: / Let vs beare him |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.89 | There's never none of these demure boys come to any | There's neuer any of these demure Boyes come to any |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.167 | To me should utter, with demure confidence | To me, should vtter, with demure Confidence, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.179 | Wear prayer books in my pocket, look demurely, | Weare prayer bookes in my pocket, looke demurely, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.52 | after a demure travel of regard – telling them I know my | after a demure trauaile of regard: telling them I knowe my |