| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.48 | Menecrates and Menas, famous pirates, | Menacrates and Menas famous Pyrates |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vi.36 | Rid all the sea of pirates; then, to send | Rid all the Sea of Pirats. Then, to send |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vi.16 | a pirate of very warlike appointment gave us chase. Finding | a Pyrate of very Warlicke appointment gaue vs Chace. Finding |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.220 | Pirates may make cheap pennyworths of their pillage | Pirates may make cheape penyworths of their pillage, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.108 | Than Bargulus, the strong Illyrian pirate. | Then Bargulus the strong Illyrian Pyrate. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.140 | Pompey the Great; and Suffolk dies by pirates. | Pompey the Great, and Suffolke dyes by Pyrats. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ix.33 | Is straightway calmed and boarded with a pirate. | Is straight way calme, and boorded with a Pyrate. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.53 | A thievish pirate, and a needy mate, | A theeuish pyrate, and a needie mate, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.7 | Thou conclud'st like the sanctimonious pirate, | Thou conclud'st like the Sanctimonious Pirat, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.69 | One Ragozine, a most notorious pirate, | One Ragozine, a most notorious Pirate, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.23 | thieves and land thieves, I mean pirates; and then there | theeues, and land theeues, I meane Pyrats, and then there |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.93.2 | Enter Pirates | Enter Pirats. |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.96 | Exeunt Pirates, carrying off Marina | Exit. |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.97 | These roguing thieves serve the great pirate Valdes, | These rogueing theeues serue the great Pyrato Valdes, |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.38 | Enter Boult with the Pirates and Marina | Enter Boult with the Pirates and Marina. |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.52 | Exeunt Pandar and Pirates | |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.61 | He should have struck, not spoke. Or that these pirates, | he should haue strooke, not spoke, or that these Pirates, |
| Pericles | Per V.i.176 | A crew of pirates came and rescued me, | A crew of Pirats came and rescued me, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.157 | Hear me, you wrangling pirates, that fall out | Heare me, you wrangling Pyrates, that fall out, |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.66 | Notable pirate, thou salt-water thief, | Notable Pyrate, thou salt-water Theefe, |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.72 | Antonio never yet was thief or pirate; | Anthonio neuer yet was Theefe, or Pyrate, |