| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.214 | A seeming mermaid steers. The silken tackle | A seeming Mer-maide steeres: The Silken Tackle, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.53 | Upon mine honour, for a silken point | Vpon mine Honor, for a silken point |
| Henry V | H5 II.chorus.2 | And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies. | And silken Dalliance in the Wardrobe lyes: |
| Henry V | H5 III.chorus.6 | With silken streamers the young Phoebus fanning. | With silken Streamers, the young Phebus fayning; |
| King John | KJ V.i.70 | A cockered silken wanton, brave our fields | A cockred-silken wanton braue our fields, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.406 | Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, | Taffata phrases, silken tearmes precise, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.25 | Fetter strong madness in a silken thread, | Fetter strong madnesse in a silken thred, |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.40 | Or tie my pleasure up in silken bags, | or / Tie my pleasure vp in silken Bagges, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.53 | By silken, sly, insinuating Jacks? | With silken, slye, insinuating Iackes? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.180 | And with a silken thread plucks it back again, | And with a silken thred plucks it backe againe, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.55 | With silken coats and caps, and golden rings, | With silken coats and caps, and golden Rings, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.82 | A custard-coffin, a bauble, a silken pie. | A custard coffen, a bauble, a silken pie, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.i.58 | immortal gods! O fine villain! A silken doublet, a velvet | immortall Goddes: oh fine villaine, a silken doublet, a veluet |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iv.46 | And make the silken strings delight to kiss them, | And make the silken strings delight to kisse them, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vii.45 | No, girl, I'll knit it up in silken strings | No girle, Ile knit it vp in silken strings, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.347 | The pedlar's silken treasury, and have poured it | The Pedlers silken Treasury, and haue powr'd it |