| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.123 | Between the constant red and mingled damask. | Betwixt the constant red, and mingled Damaske. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.viii.10 | Wherein thou seest me masked. For thy revenge | Wherein thou seest me maskt, for thy Reuenge |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.208 | Commit the war of white and damask in | Commit the Warre of White and Damaske / In |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.21 | With faces fit for masks, or rather fairer | With faces fit for Maskes, or rather fayrer |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.37 | If she unmask her beauty to the moon. | If she vnmaske her beauty to the Moone: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.178 | to immask our noted outward garments. | to immaske our noted outward garments. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.136 | And stain my favours in a bloody mask, | And staine my fauours in a bloody Maske: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.66 | Where hateful death put on his ugliest mask | Where hatefull death put on his vgliest Maske |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.224 | That Lewis of France is sending over masquers | That Lewis of France, is sending ouer Maskers |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.94 | That Lewis of France is sending over masquers | That Lewis of France is sending ouer Maskers, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.26 | Was to them as a painting. Now this masque | Was to them, as a Painting. Now this Maske |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iv.64.1 | Hautboys. Enter the King and others as masquers, | Hoboyes. Enter King and others as Maskers, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iv.86 | The King unmasks | |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.81 | To mask thy monstrous visage? Seek none, conspiracy; | To maske thy monstrous Visage? Seek none Conspiracie, |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.62 | Joined with a masquer and a reveller. | Ioyn'd with a Masker, and a Reueller. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.149 | And, being unmasked, outshine the golden sun. | And being vnmaskt outshine the golden sun, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.7 | Masking, as 'twere, the beauteous burning sun, | Masking as twere the beautious burning Sunne, |
| King John | KJ V.ii.132 | This harnessed masque and unadvised revel, | This harness'd Maske, and vnaduised Reuell, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.88 | Most maculate thoughts, master, are masked under | Most immaculate thoughts Master, are mask'd vnder |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.114.2 | Berowne and Rosaline converse apart | [Q1] BEROWNE Did not I dance with you in Brabant once? KATHER. Did not I dance with you in Brabant once? BEROWNE I know you did. KATH. How needles was it then to aske the question? BEROWNE You must not be so quicke. KATH. Tis long of you that spur me with such questions. BEROWNE Your wit's too hot, it speedes too fast, twill tire. KATH. Not till it leaue the rider in the mire. BEROWNE What time a day? KATH. The houre that fooles should aske. BEROWNE Now faire befall your maske. KATH. Faire fall the face it couers. BEROWNE And send you manie louers. KATH. Amen, so you be none. BEROWNE Nay then will I be gone. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.355 | For revels, dances, masques, and merry hours | For Reuels, Dances, Maskes, and merry houres, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.127 | For, ladies, we shall every one be masked, | For Ladies; we will euery one be maskt, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.157 | The trumpet sounds. Be masked – the masquers come. | The Trompet sounds, be maskt, the maskers come. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.245 | You have a double tongue within your mask, | You haue a double tongue within your mask. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.295 | Fair ladies masked are roses in their bud; | Faire Ladies maskt, are Roses in their bud: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.296 | Dismasked, their damask sweet commixture shown, | Dismaskt, their damaske sweet commixture showne, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.337.2 | having unmasked and exchanged favours, with | |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.124 | Masking the business from the common eye | Masking the Businesse from the common Eye, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.79 | When it doth tax itself, as these black masks | When it doth taxe it selfe: As these blacke Masques |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.204 | My husband bids me. Now I will unmask. | My husband bids me, now I will vnmaske. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.iv.22 | Will you prepare you for this masque tonight? | will you prepare you for this Maske to night, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.v.23 | say you shall see a masque, but if you do, then it was not | you shall see a Maske, but if you doe, then it was not |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.v.27 | What, are there masques? Hear you me, Jessica: | What are their maskes? heare you me Iessica, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vi.1.1 | Enter the masquers, Gratiano and Salerio | Enter the Maskers, Gratiano and Salino. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vi.59 | Our masquing mates by this time for us stay. | Our masking mates by this time for vs stay. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vi.64 | No masque tonight. The wind is come about; | No maske to night, the winde is come about, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.vi.40 | For they must all be masked and vizarded – | For they must all be mask'd, and vizarded) |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.45 | That's all one: you shall play it in a mask, and | That's all one, you shall play it in a Maske, and |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.32 | Come now, what masques, what dances shall we have | Come now, what maskes, what dances shall we haue, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.40 | What masque, what music? How shall we beguile | What maske? What musicke? How shall we beguile |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.344 | epilogue, or to hear a Bergomask dance between two of | Epilogue, or to heare a Bergomask dance, betweene two of |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.352 | Bergomask; let your epilogue alone. | Burgomaske; let your Epilogue alone. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.77.1 | All put on their masks | |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.77.3 | John, Borachio, and others, as masquers, with a drum | Iohn, Maskers with a drum. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.12 | And when I send for you, come hither masked. | And when I send for you, come hither mask'd: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.52 | Enter Antonio, with the Ladies masked | Enter brother, Hero, Beatrice, Margaret, Vrsula. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.60 | (unmasking) | |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.73 | (unmasking) | |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.8 | To fetch her fan, her gloves, her mask, nor nothing? | To fetch her Fan, her Gloues, her Mask, nor no thing? |
| Pericles | Per III.iii.36 | Then give you up to the masked Neptune, and | then giue you vp to the mask'd Neptune, and |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.230 | These happy masks that kiss fair ladies' brows, | These happy maskes that kisse faire Ladies browes, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.1.2 | other maskers, and torchbearers | other Maskers, Torch-bearers. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.48 | And we mean well in going to this masque, | And we meane well in going to this Maske, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.17.2 | the guests and gentlewomen to the maskers | to the Maskers. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.34.1 | Were in a mask? | Were in a Maske? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.38 | Some five-and-twenty years; and then we masked. | Some fiue and twenty yeares, and then we Maskt. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.85 | Thou knowest the mask of night is on my face, | Thou knowest the maske of night is on my face, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.87 | O mercy, God! What masquing stuff is here? | Oh mercie God, what masking stuffe is heere? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.120 | Enter Cupid | Enter Cupid with the Maske of Ladies. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.129.1 | Music. Enter Cupid with a Masque of Ladies as | Enter the Maskers of |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.262 | mine honesty; my mask to defend my beauty, and you | mine honesty; my Maske, to defend my beauty, and you |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.84 | Th' unworthiest shows as fairly in the mask. | Th'vnworthiest shewes as fairely in the Maske. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.107 | strangest mind i'the world. I delight in masques and | strangest minde i'th world: I delight in Maskes and |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.111 | Feed on her damask cheek. She pined in thought, | Feede on her damaske cheeke: she pin'd in thought, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.150 | And threw her sun-expelling mask away, | And threw her Sun-expelling Masque away, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.ii.40 | But, being masked, he was not sure of it; | But being mask'd, he was not sure of it. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.74 | With cherry lips, and cheeks of damask roses, | With cherry-lips, and cheekes of Damaske Roses, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.222 | Gloves as sweet as damask roses; | Gloues as sweete as Damaske Roses, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.223 | Masks for faces, and for noses; | Maskes for faces, and for noses: |