| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.2 | Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish, | Sometime we see a clowd that's Dragonish, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.i.30 | Like to a lonely dragon that his fen | Like to a lonely Dragon, that his Fenne |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vii.23 | Fights dragon-like, and does achieve as soon | Fights Dragon-like, and does atcheeue as soone |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iv.13 | grown from man to dragon. He has wings; he's more | growne from Man to Dragon: He has wings, hee's more |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.48 | Swift, swift, you dragons of the night, that dawning | Swift, swift, you Dragons of the night, that dawning |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.145 | And of a dragon and a finless fish, | And of a Dragon, and a finne-lesse Fish, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.241 | drinks off candles' ends for flap-dragons, and rides the | drinkes off Candles ends for Flap-dragons, and rides the |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.11 | His arms spread wider than a dragon's wings; | His Armes spred wider then a Dragons Wings: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.95 | That stout Pendragon in his litter sick | That stout Pendragon, in his Litter sick, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.152 | Like fiery dragons took their haughty flight, | Like fiery Dragons tooke their haughty flight, |
| King John | KJ II.i.68 | With ladies' faces and fierce dragons' spleens – | With Ladies faces, and fierce Dragons spleenes, |
| King John | KJ II.i.288 | Saint George, that swinged the dragon, and e'er since | Saint George that swindg'd the Dragon, / And ere since |
| King Lear | KL I.i.122 | Come not between the dragon and his wrath. | Come not betweene the Dragon and his wrath, |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.129 | Dragon's tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so | Dragons taile, and my Natiuity was vnder Vrsa Maior, so |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.42 | than a flap-dragon. | then a flapdragon. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.22 | Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, | Scale of Dragon, Tooth of Wolfe, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.379 | For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, | For night-swift Dragons cut the Clouds full fast, |
| Pericles | Per I.i.30 | For deathlike dragons here affright thee hard. | For Death like Dragons heere affright thee hard: |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.351 | Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons! | Inspire vs with the spleene of fiery Dragons: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.74 | Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? | Iul. Did euer Dragon keepe so faire a Caue? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.190 | Go great with tigers, dragons, wolves, and bears, | Goe great with Tygers, Dragons, Wolues, and Beares, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.viii.17 | The dragon wing of night o'erspreads the earth, | The dragon wing of night ore-spreds the earth |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.95 | an end of the ship: to see how the sea flap-dragoned it; | an end of the Ship, to see how the Sea flap-dragon'd it: |