| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.15 | Fingered their packet, and in fine withdrew | Finger'd their Packet, and in fine, withdrew |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vi.34 | | [Q1 replaces this scene with the following] Enter Horatio and the Queene. HOR. Madame, your sonne is safe arriv'de in Denmarke, This letter I euen now receiv'd of him, Whereas he writes how he escap't the danger, And subtle treason that the king had plotted, Being crossed by the contention of the windes, He found the Packet sent to the king of England, Wherein he saw himselfe betray'd to death, As at his next conuersion with your grace, He will relate the circumstance at full. QUEENE. Then I perceiue there's treason in his lookes That seem'd to sugar o're his villanie: But I will soothe and please him for a time, For murderous mindes are alwayes jealous, But know not you Horatio where he is? HOR. Yes Madame, and he hath appoynted me To meete him on the east side of the Cittie To morrow morning. QUEENE. O faile not, good Horatio, and withall, commend me A mothers care to him, bid him a while Be wary of his presence, lest that he Faile in that he goes about. HOR. Madam, neuer make doubt of that: I thinke by this the news be come to court: He is arriv'de, obserue the king, and you shall Quickely finde, Hamlet being here, Things fell not to his minde. QUEENE. But what became of Gilderstone and Rossencraft? HOR. He being set ashore, they went for England, And in the Packet there writ down that doome To be perform'd on them poynted for him: And by great chance he had his fathers Seale, So all was done without discouerie. QUEENE. Thankes be to heauen for blessing of the prince, Horatio once againe I take my leaue, With thowsand mothers blessings to my sonne. HORAT. Madam adue. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.67.2 | Is Gilliams with the packet gone? | Is Gilliams with the Packet gone? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.101 | This packet, please it you, contains at large. | This Packet (please it you) containes at large. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.76 | The packet, Cromwell, | The Packet Cromwell, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.129 | Some spirit put this paper in the packet | Some Spirit put this paper in the Packet, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.215 | Made me put this main secret in the packet | Made me put this maine Secret in the Packet |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.286 | The goodness of your intercepted packets | The goodnesse of your intercepted Packets |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.ii.31 | And at the door too, like a post with packets. | And at the dore too, like a Post with Packets: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.164 | So please your grace, the packet is not come | So please your Grace, the packet is not come |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.100 | And this small packet of Greek and Latin books. | And this small packet of Greeke and Latine bookes: |