| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.198 | Purple the sails, and so perfumed that | Purple the Sailes: and so perfumed that |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.169 | Of crowflowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples, | Of Crow-flowers, Nettles, Daysies, and long Purples, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.i.76 | purple-hued maltworms; but with nobility and tranquillity, | purple-hu'd-Maltwormes, but with Nobility, and Tranquilitie; |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.32 | that lived in purple: for there he is in his robes, burning, | that liued in Purple; for there he is in his Robes burning, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.12 | With purple falchion, painted to the hilt | With Purple Faulchion, painted to the Hilt, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.99 | The one his purple blood right well resembles; | The one, his purple Blood right well resembles, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.64 | O, may such purple tears be alway shed | O may such purple teares be alway shed |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.158 | Now, whilst your purpled hands do reek and smoke, | Now, whil'st your purpled hands do reeke and smoake, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.161 | Purple the sea, whose channel filled as fast | Purple the Sea whose channel fild as fast, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.29 | Did in the orient purple of the morn | Did in the Orient purple of the morne, |
| King John | KJ II.i.322 | Our lusty English, all with purpled hands, | Our lustie English, all with purpled hands, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.70 | In emerald tufts, flowers purple, blue, and white, | In Emrold-tuffes, Flowres purple, blew, and white, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.87 | beard, your orange-tawny beard, your purple-in-grain | beard, your orange tawnie beard, your purple in graine |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.167 | Before, milk-white; now purple with love's wound: | Before, milke-white; now purple with loues wound, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.162 | With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries. | With purple Grapes, greene Figs, and Mulberries, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.102 | Flower of this purple dye, | Flower of this purple die, |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.15 | The purple violets, and marigolds | the purple Violets, and Marigolds, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.94 | The purple testament of bleeding war; | The purple Testament of bleeding Warre; |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.277 | The purple sap from her sweet brother's body, | The purple sappe from her sweet Brothers body, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.85 | With purple fountains issuing from your veins! | With purple Fountaines issuing from your Veines: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.50 | Green Neptune into purple, whose approach | Greene Nepture into purple. |