| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.86 | That wounds th' unsisting postern with these strokes. | That wounds th' vnsisting Posterne with these strokes. |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.17 | To thread the postern of a small needle's eye.’ | To thred the posterne of a Needles eye. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.i.9 | Out at the postern by the abbey wall; | Out at the Posterne by the Abbey wall; |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.438 | And will by twos and threes, at several posterns, | And will by twoes, and threes, at seuerall Posternes, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.464 | The keys of all the posterns. Please your highness | The Keyes of all the Posternes: Please your Highnesse |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.52 | For them to play at will. How came the posterns | For them to play at will: how came the Posternes |