| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.75 | Or an old lion, or a lover's lute. | Or an old Lyon, or a Louers Lute. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.204 | With ravishing division to her lute. | With rauishing Diuision to her Lute. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.96 | Play on the lute, beholding the towns burn. | Play on the Lute, beholding the Townes burne: |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.1 | Take thy lute, wench. My soul grows sad with troubles; | Take thy Lute wench, / My Soule growes sad with troubles, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.3 | Orpheus with his lute made trees, | Orpheus with his Lute made Trees, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.56 | Go, bid the drummer learn to touch the lute, | Go bid the drummer learne to touch the Lute, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.319 | As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair. | As bright Apollo's Lute, strung with his haire. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.84 | When I like your favour; for God defend the lute | When I like your fauour, for God defend the Lute |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.IV.25 | By hurting it; or when to th' lute | By hurting it or when too'th Lute |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.13 | To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. | To the lasciuious pleasing of a Lute. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.39.4 | with his boy, Biondello, bearing a lute and books | with his boy bearing a Lute and Bookes. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.101 | Biondello steps forward with the lute and the books | |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.106 | (to Hortensio) Take you the lute, (to Lucentio) and you the set of books. | Take you the Lute, and you the set of bookes, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.147 | Why then, thou canst not break her to the lute? | Why then thou canst not break her to the Lute? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.148 | Why no, for she hath broke the lute to me. | Why no, for she hath broke the Lute to me: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.156 | As on a pillory, looking through the lute, | As on a Pillorie, looking through the Lute, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iv.45 | Tremble like aspen leaves upon a lute | Tremble like Aspen leaues vpon a Lute, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.78 | For Orpheus' lute was strung with poets' sinews, | For Orpheus Lute, was strung with Poets sinewes, |