| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.32 | whole bookful of these quondam carpet-mongers, | whole booke full of these quondam carpet-mongers, |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.16 | Shall as a carpet hang upon thy grave | shall as a Carpet hang vpon thy graue, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.50 | Upon the grassy carpet of this plain. | Vpon the Grassie Carpet of this Plaine: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.44 | fair within, the Jills fair without, the carpets laid, and | faire within, the Gils faire without, the Carpets laide, and |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.231 | on carpet consideration – but he is a devil in private | on carpet consideration, but he is a diuell in priuate |