| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.112 | When for so slight and frivolous a cause | When for so slight and friuolous a cause, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.ii.27 | Your oath, my lord, is vain and frivolous. | Your Oath, my Lord, is vaine and friuolous. |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.83 | But all are frivolous fancies, toys, and dreams: | But all are fryuolous, fancies, toyes and dreames, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.i.23 | in Padua. Do you hear, sir? To leave frivolous circumstances, | in Padua: doe you heare sir, to leaue friuolous circumstances, |