| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.iii.32.2 | Brown, madam; and her forehead | Browne Madam: and her forehead |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xi.14 | Reprove the brown for rashness, and they them | Reproue the browne for rashnesse, and they them |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.viii.20 | Do something mingle with our younger brown, yet ha' we | Do somthing mingle with our yonger brown, yet ha we |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.18 | that our heads are some brown, some black, some abram, | that our heads are some browne, some blacke, some Abram, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.71 | Why then your brown bastard is your only | Why then your browne Bastard is your onely |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.x.11 | my brain-pan had been cleft with a brown bill; and | my braine-pan had bene cleft with a brown Bill; and |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.295 | Worse than the sacring bell, when the brown wench | Worse then the Sacring Bell, when the browne Wench |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.91 | Bring up the brown bills. – O, well flown, bird! I'the | Bring vp the browne Billes. O well flowne Bird: i'th' |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.3 | have all the world drink brown and white bastard. | haue all the world drinke browne & white bastard. |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.173 | though she smelt brown bread and garlic. Say that I | though she smelt browne-bread and Garlicke: say that I |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.5 | a commodity of brown paper and old ginger, ninescore-and-seventeen | a commoditie of browne paper, and olde Ginger, nine score |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.44 | Mistress Anne Page? She has brown hair, and | Mistris Anne Page? she has browne haire, and |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.162 | high praise, too brown for a fair praise, and too little for | hie praise, too browne for a faire praise, and too little for |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.248 | Is straight and slender, and as brown in hue | Is straight, and slender, and as browne in hue |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.133 | brown thread. I said a gown. | browne thred: I said a gowne. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.62 | for an acre of barren ground. Long heath, brown furze, | for an Acre of barren ground: Long heath, Browne firrs, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.94 | swore th' other day that Troilus, for a brown favour | swore th'other day, that Troylus for a browne fauour |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.95 | – for so 'tis, I must confess – not brown neither – | (for so 'tis I must confesse) not browne neither. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.96 | No, but brown. | No, but browne. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.97 | Faith, to say truth, brown and not brown. | Faith to say truth, browne and not browne. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iii.39 | A pretty brown wench 'tis. There was a time | A pretty broune wench t'is-There was a time |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.42 | Has this brown manly face! O love, this only | Has this browne manly face? O Love, this only |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.79 | Nearer a brown than black, stern and yet noble, | Nearer a browne, than blacke; sterne, and yet noble, |