| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.iii.10.1 | He puts on Sir Humphrey Stafford's coat of mail | |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.29 | Nor lay aside their jacks of gimmaled mail, | Nor lay aside their Iacks of Gymould mayle, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.71 | mail, sir! O, sir, plantain, a plain plantain! No l'envoy, | male sir. Or sir, Plantan, a plaine Plantan: no lenuoy, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.152 | Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail | Quite out of fashion, like a rustie male, |