| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.54 | where each of us fell in praise of our country mistresses; | where each of vs fell in praise of our Country-Mistresses. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.3 | Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky, | Brandish your crystall Tresses in the Skie, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iv.6 | To your obedience fifty fortresses, | To your obedience, fiftie Fortresses, |
| King John | KJ III.iv.61 | Bind up those tresses! O, what love I note | Binde vp those tresses: O what loue I note |
| King Lear | KL IV.ii.21 | A mistress's command. Wear this; (giving a favour) spare speech. | A Mistresses command. Weare this; spare speech, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.64 | When mistresses from common sense are hid; | When Mistresses from common sense are hid. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.268 | Your mistresses dare never come in rain, | Your mistresses dare neuer come in raine, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.286 | Madam, and pretty mistresses, give ear: | Madam, and prettie mistresses giue eare, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.188.1 | To doff their dire distresses. | To doffe their dire distresses. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iv.107 | John Falstaff from my two mistresses. What a beast am | Iohn Falstaffe from my two Mistresses: what a beast am |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.19 | Ah, my mistresses, which of you all | Ah my Mistresses, which of you all |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.6 | Tune my distresses, and record my woes. | Tune my distrestes, and record my woes. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.1.3 | after Hymen, a nymph, encompassed in her tresses, | After Hymen, a Nimph, encompast in her Tresses, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.1.7 | holding a garland over her head, her tresses likewise | holding a Garland over her head (her Tresses likewise |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.32 | For us and our distresses! This good deed | For us, and our distresses: This good deede |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.63 | Not Juno's mantle fairer then your tresses, | Not Iunos Mantle fairer then your Tresses, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.83 | Was knee-deep where she sat; her careless tresses | Was knee deepe where she sat; her careles Tresses, |