| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vi.83 | The violets, cowslips, and the primroses | The Violets, Cowslippes, and the Prime-Roses |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.221 | The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose, nor | The Flower that's like thy face. Pale-Primrose, nor |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.50 | Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads | Himselfe, the Primrose path of dalliance treads, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.63 | Look pale as primrose with blood-drinking sighs, | Looke pale as Prim-rose with blood-drinking sighes, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.18 | go the primrose way to the everlasting bonfire. | goe the Primrose way to th' euerlasting Bonfire. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.215 | Upon faint primrose beds were wont to lie, | Vpon faint Primrose beds, were wont to lye, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.7 | Primrose, first-born child of Ver, | Prim-rose first borne, child of Ver, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.122 | Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses, | Or Cytherea's breath) pale Prime-roses, |