| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.v.71 | If thou with Caesar paragon again | If thou with Casar Paragon againe: |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.77 | Either your unparagoned mistress is dead, or she's | Either your vnparagon'd Mistirs is dead, or she's |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.17 | But kiss, one kiss! Rubies unparagoned, | But kisse, one kisse. Rubies vnparagon'd, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vii.16 | An earthly paragon! Behold divineness | An earthly Paragon. Behold Diuinenesse |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.147.2 | That paragon, thy daughter, | That Paragon, thy daughter, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.307 | beauty of the world, the paragon of animals! And yet | beauty of the world, the Parragon of Animals; and yet |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.230.1 | That's paragoned o'th' world. | That's Parragon'd o'th'World |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.ii.13 | You must say ‘ paragon.’ A paramour is – God bless | You must say, Paragon. A Paramour is (God blesse |
| Othello | Oth II.i.62 | That paragons description and wild fame; | That paragons description, and wilde Fame: |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.35 | Our paragon to all reports thus blasted, | our Paragon to all reports thus blasted, |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.134 | turn. Therefore say what a paragon she is, and thou hast | turne, therefore say what a parragon she is, and thou hast |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.77 | paragon to their queen. | Paragon to their Queene. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.144 | No; but she is an earthly paragon. | No; But she is an earthly Paragon. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.152 | Exposed this paragon to th' fearful usage, | Expos'd this Paragon to th' fearefull vsage |