| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.i.30 | Like to a lonely dragon that his fen | Like to a lonely Dragon, that his Fenne |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iv.13 | grown from man to dragon. He has wings; he's more | growne from Man to Dragon: He has wings, hee's more |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.145 | And of a dragon and a finless fish, | And of a Dragon, and a finne-lesse Fish, |
| King John | KJ II.i.288 | Saint George, that swinged the dragon, and e'er since | Saint George that swindg'd the Dragon, / And ere since |
| King Lear | KL I.i.122 | Come not between the dragon and his wrath. | Come not betweene the Dragon and his wrath, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.22 | Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, | Scale of Dragon, Tooth of Wolfe, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.74 | Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? | Iul. Did euer Dragon keepe so faire a Caue? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.viii.17 | The dragon wing of night o'erspreads the earth, | The dragon wing of night ore-spreds the earth |