| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.23 | that went like a bass viol in a case of leather; the man, | that went like a Base-Viole in a case of leather; the man |
| Pericles | Per I.i.82 | You are a fair viol, and your sense the strings, | You are a faire Violl, and your sense, the stringes; |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.89 | The viol once more! How thou stirrest, thou block! | The Violl once more; how thou stirr'st thou blocke? |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.162 | Than an unstringed viol or a harp, | Then an vnstringed Vyall, or a Harpe, |