| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.i.104 | Give her this key, and tell her in the desk | Giue her this key, and tell her in the Deske |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.29 | Here, go – the desk, the purse, sweet, now, make haste. |
Here goe: the deske, the purse, sweet now make haste. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.46 | Will you send him, mistress, redemption – the money in his desk? |
will you send him Mistris redemption, the monie in his
deske. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.136 | If I had played the desk or table-book, | If I had playd the Deske or Table-booke, |