| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.i.43 | In top of all design, my mate in empire, | In top of all designe; my Mate in Empire, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.38 | So thou, that hast no unkind mate to grieve thee, | So thou that hast no vnkinde mate to greeue thee, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.120 | you poor, base, rascally, cheating, lack-linen mate! | you poore, base, rascally, cheating, lacke-Linnen-Mate: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.92 | If thou receive me for thy warlike mate. | If thou receiue me for thy Warlike Mate. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.99 | To be disgraced by an inkhorn mate, | To be disgraced by an Inke-horne Mate, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.1.2 | Lieutenant, a Master, a Master's Mate, Walter | Lieutenant, Suffolke, and others. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.13 | And thou that art his mate make boot of this; | And thou that art his Mate, make boote of this: |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.274 | Dare mate a sounder man than Surrey can be, | Dare mate a sounder man then Surrie can be, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.53 | A thievish pirate, and a needy mate, | A theeuish pyrate, and a needie mate, |
| King Lear | KL IV.iii.34 | Else one self mate and make could not beget | |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.46 | The gunner and his mate, | The Gunner, and his Mate |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.176 | As sun to day, as turtle to her mate, | As Sunne to day: as Turtle to her mate: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.134 | My mate, that's never to be found again, | My Mate (that's neuer to be found againe) |