| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iv.32 | question with him. He asked me of what parentage I | question with him: he askt me of what parentage I |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.73 | I was the next by birth and parentage; | I was the next by Birth and Parentage: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.14 | Graceless, wilt thou deny thy parentage? | Gracelesse, wilt thou deny thy Parentage? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.135 | And, ignorant of his birth and parentage, | And ignorant of his birth and parentage, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.23 | Replete with princes of great parentage, | Repleat with Princes of great parentage, |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.74 | Of whence he is, his name, and parentage. | Of whence he is, his name, and Parentage? |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.80 | Of whence you are, your name, and parentage. | Of whence you are, your name and parentage? |
| Pericles | Per V.i.91 | But time hath rooted out my parentage, | but time hath rooted out my parentage, |
| Pericles | Per V.i.96 | My fortunes – parentage – good parentage – | My fortunes, parentage, good parentage, |
| Pericles | Per V.i.98 | I said, my lord, if you did know my parentage, | I sed my Lord, if you did know my parentage, |
| Pericles | Per V.i.129 | Report thy parentage. I think thou saidst | Report thy parentage, I think thou saidst |
| Pericles | Per V.i.189 | Her parentage. Being demanded that, | her parentage, / Being demaunded, that |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.180 | A gentleman of noble parentage, | A Gentleman of Noble Parentage, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.95 | That, upon knowledge of my parentage, | That vpon knowledge of my Parentage, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.266 | What is your parentage? | What is your Parentage? |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.278 | ‘ What is your parentage?’ | What is your Parentage? |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.228 | What countryman? What name? What parentage? | What Countreyman? What name? What Parentage? |