| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.180 | Respecting this our marriage with the dowager, | Respecting this our Marriage with the Dowager, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.70 | Shall be called Queen, but Princess Dowager, | Shall be call'd Queene, but Princesse Dowager, |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.23 | The Princess Dowager? How goes her business? | The Princesse Dowager? How goes her businesse? |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.1.1 | Enter Katherine, Dowager, sick, led between | Enter Katherine Dowager, sicke, lead betweene |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.5 | Like to a stepdame or a dowager | Like to a Step-dame, or a Dowager, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.157 | I have a widow aunt, a dowager, | I haue a Widdow Aunt, a dowager, |