| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.315 | A lass unparalleled. Downy windows, close; | A Lasse vnparalell'd. Downie Windowes cloze, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.33 | There lies a downy feather which stirs not; | There lyes a dowlney feather, which stirres not: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.56 | So doth the swan her downy cygnets save, | So doth the Swan her downie Signets saue, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.160 | And take away their downy feather-beds, | And take awaie their downie featherbedes, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.73 | Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit, | Shake off this Downey sleepe, Deaths counterfeit, |