| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.198 | prologue. If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis | Prologue. If it be true, that good wine needs no bush, 'tis |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.123 | And prologue to the omen coming on, | |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.150 | Enter the Fourth Player as Prologue | |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.161 | Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring? | Is this a Prologue, or the Poesie of a Ring? |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.18 | Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss. | Each toy seemes Prologue, to some great amisse, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.30 | Or I could make a prologue to my brains | Ere I could make a Prologue to my braines, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.21 | be prologue to an egg and butter. | be Prologue to an Egge and Butter. |
| Henry V | H5 I.chorus.1 | Flourish. Enter Chorus | Enter Prologue. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.151 | But mine is made the prologue to their play; | But mine is made the Prologue to their Play: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.305 | Their shallow shows and prologue vilely penned, | Their shallow showes, and Prologue vildely pen'd: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.69 | and, as it were, spoke the prologue of our comedy; and | & (as it were) spoke the prologue of our Comedy: and |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.16 | Write me a prologue, and let the prologue seem to say | Write me a Prologue, and let the Prologue seeme to say, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.21 | Well, we will have such a prologue; and it shall | Well, we will haue such a Prologue, and it shall |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.31 | Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a | Therefore another Prologue must tell he is not a |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.106 | So please your grace, the Prologue is addressed. | So please your Grace, the Prologue is addrest. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.108.2 | Enter Quince as Prologue | Enter the Prologue. Quince. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.119 | He hath rid his prologue like a rough colt; he | He hath rid his Prologue, like a rough Colt: he |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.122 | Indeed, he hath played on his prologue like a | Indeed hee hath plaid on his Prologue, like a |
| Othello | Oth II.i.249 | Lechery, by this hand: an index and obscure prologue | Leacherie by this hand: an Index, and obscure prologue |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.124 | 'Tis evermore the prologue to his sleep: | 'Tis euermore his prologue to his sleepe, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.7 | Nor no without-book prologue, faintly spoke | |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.257 | Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come, | Whereof, what's past is Prologue; what to come |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC prologue.1.1 | Enter Prologue in armour | |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC prologue.23 | A Prologue armed, but not in confidence | A Prologue arm'd, but not in confidence |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | | PROLOGUE | PROLOGVE. |