| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.i.6 | Upon a tawny front. His captain's heart, | Vpon a Tawny Front. His Captaines heart, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.12 | Tawny-finned fishes. My bended hook shall pierce | Tawny fine fishes, my bended hooke shall pierce |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.159 | We shall your tawny ground with your red blood | We shall your tawnie ground with your red blood |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iii.29.2 | and his men in tawny coats | and his men in Tawney Coates. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iii.47 | Blue coats to tawny coats! Priest, beware your beard; | Blew Coats to Tawny Coats. Priest, beware your Beard, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iii.56 | Out, tawny coats! Out, scarlet hypocrite! | Out Tawney-Coates, out Scarlet Hypocrite. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.74 | A noise within: ‘ Down with the tawny coats!’ | A noyse within, Downe with the Tawny-Coats. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.32 | Nor from their buttoned tawny leathern belts | Nor from their buttoned tawny leatherne belts, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.171 | From tawny Spain, lost in the world's debate. | From tawnie Spaine lost in the worlds debate. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.i.1.2 | tawny Moor all in white, and three or four followers | tawnie Moore all in white, and three or foure followers |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.263.2 | Thy love? – out, tawny Tartar, out; | Thy loue? out tawny Tartar, out; |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.57 | The ground, indeed, is tawny. | The ground indeed is tawny. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.27 | ‘ Peace, tawny slave, half me and half thy dam! | Peace Tawny slaue, halfe me, and halfe thy Dam, |