| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.213.1 | Enter the King and Queen, Laertes, and the corpse of | Enter King, Queene, Laertes, and a Coffin, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.19 | Upon a wooden coffin we attend; | Vpon a Woodden Coffin we attend; |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.107 | My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, | My heart is in the Coffin there with Casar, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.82 | at my foot, and the ducats in her coffin! No news of | at my foote, and the duckets in her coffin: no newes of |
| Pericles | Per III.i.67 | Bring me the satin coffer. Lay the babe | Bring me the Sattin Coffin: lay the Babe |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.51.1 | 'Tis like a coffin, sir. | T'is like a Coffin, sir. |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.67 | If e'er this coffin drives a-land, | If ere this Coffin driues aland; |
| Pericles | Per V.iii.23 | Thrown upon this shore. I oped the coffin, | throwne vpon this shore. I op't the coffin, |
| Richard II | R2 V.vi.30 | Enter Exton with the coffin | Enter Exton with a Coffin. |
| Richard II | R2 V.vi.30 | Great King, within this coffin I present | Great King, within this Coffin I present |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.38 | My lord, stand back, and let the coffin pass. | My Lord stand backe, and let the Coffin passe. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.73.3 | Coffin covered with black, then two other sons, Lucius | Coffin couered with blacke, then two other Sonnes. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.73.7 | and others as many as can be. Then set down the coffin, | and others, as many as can bee: They set downe the Coffin, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.153 | Sound trumpets, and lay the coffin in the tomb | Flourish. Then Sound Trumpets, and lay the Coffins in the Tombe. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.187 | And of the paste a coffin I will rear, | And of the Paste a Coffen I will reare, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.59 | On my black coffin let there be strewn. | On my blacke coffin, let there be strewne: |