| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iv.47 | If you will see a pageant truly played, | If you will see a pageant truely plaid |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.67 | To play my part in Fortune's pageant. | To play my part in Fortunes Pageant. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.106 | delightful ostentation, or show, or pageant, or antic, or | delightfull ostentation, or show, or pageant, or anticke, or |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.114 | Shall we their fond pageant see? | Shall we their fond Pageant see? |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.18 | By no assay of reason. 'Tis a pageant | By no assay of reason. 'Tis a Pageant |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.320 | A woeful pageant have we here beheld. | A wofull Pageant haue we here beheld. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.85 | The flattering index of a direful pageant, | The flattering Index of a direfull Pageant; |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.155 | And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, | And like this insubstantiall Pageant faded |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.73 | Cupid's pageant there is presented no monster. | Cupids Pageant there is presented no monster. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.272 | the pageant of Ajax. | the Pageant of Aiax. |