| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.83.2 | What do you prate of service? | What do you prate of Seruice. |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.159 | More bound to's mother, yet here he lets me prate | More bound to's Mother, yet heere he let's me prate |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.276 | And if thou prate of mountains, let them throw | And if thou prate of Mountaines; let them throw |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.294 | justice hath done nothing but prate to me of the wildness | Iustice hath done nothing but prate to me of the wildenesse |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.124 | And perish ye with your audacious prate! | And perish ye with your audacious prate, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.137 | Father, range your battles, prate no more. | Father range your battailes, prate no more, |
| King John | KJ IV.i.25 | If I talk to him, with his innocent prate | If I talke to him, with his innocent prate |
| Macbeth | Mac II.i.58 | Thy very stones prate of my whereabout | Thy very stones prate of my where-about, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.118 | be well. We must give folks leave to prate. What the | bee well: We must giue folkes leaue to prate: what the |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.44 | Mistress Ford, I cannot cog, I cannot prate, | Mistris Ford, I cannot cog, I cannot prate |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.145 | Dost thou prate, rogue? | Dost thou prate, Rogue? |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.349 | Tut, tut, my lord! We will not stand to prate; | Tut, tut, my Lord, we will not stand to prate, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.268 | As well as he that sleeps; lords that can prate | As well as he that sleepes: Lords, that can prate |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.119 | To those that prate and have done, no companion; | To those that prate and have done; no Companion |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.40 | To prate and talk for life and honour 'fore | To prate and talke for Life, and Honor, fore |