| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.ii.17 | pin-buttock, the quatch-buttock, the brawn-buttock, or | buttocke, the quatch-buttocke, the brawn buttocke, or |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.123 | Once more to hew thy target from thy brawn, | Once more to hew thy Target from thy Brawne, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.311 | The brawns of Hercules: but his Jovial face – | The brawnes of Hercules: but his Iouiall face--- |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.108 | damned brawn shall play Dame Mortimer his wife. | damn'd Brawne shall play Dame Mortimer his wife. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.19 | And Harry Monmouth's brawn, the hulk Sir John, | And Harrie Monmouth's Brawne (the Hulke Sir Iohn) |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.297 | And in my vantbrace put this withered brawn; | And in my Vantbrace put this wither'd brawne, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.126 | Which shows an active soul; his arms are brawny, | Which showes an active soule; his armes are brawny |