| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.i.63 | clerks, I'll give thee this neck. | Clarks, Ile giue thee this necke. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.179 | With ignominious words, though clerkly couched, | With ignominious words, though Clarkely coucht? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.80 | Enter some rebels with the Clerk of Chartham | Enter a Clearke. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.80 | The clerk of Chartham; he can write and read and | The Clearke of Chartam: hee can write and |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.102 | Exit one with the Clerk | Exit one with the Clearke |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vii.66 | Large gifts have I bestowed on learned clerks, | Large gifts haue I bestow'd on learned Clearkes, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.90 | The trial just and noble. All the clerks – | The Tryall, iust and Noble. All the Clerkes, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.119 | Enter Nerissa dressed like a lawyer's clerk | Enter Nerrissa. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.391.2 | Clerk, draw a deed of gift. | Clarke, draw a deed of gift. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.143 | In faith, I gave it to the judge's clerk. | Infaith I gaue it to the Iudges Clearke, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.157 | Gave it a judge's clerk! No, God's my judge, | Gaue it a Iudges Clearke: but wel I know |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.158 | The clerk will ne'er wear hair on's face that had it! | The Clearke wil nere weare haire on's face that had it. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.163 | No higher than thyself, the judge's clerk, | No higher then thy selfe, the Iudges Clearke, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.181 | Deserved it too; and then the boy, his clerk | Deseru'd it too: and then the Boy his Clearke |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.234 | And I his clerk. Therefore be well advised | And I his Clarke: therefore be well aduis'd |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.237 | For if I do, I'll mar the young clerk's pen. | For if I doe, ile mar the yong Clarks pen. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.261 | For that same scrubbed boy, the doctor's clerk, | For that same scrubbed boy the Doctors Clarke |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.270 | Nerissa there her clerk. Lorenzo here | Nerrissa there her Clarke. Lorenzo heere |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.281 | Were you the clerk that is to make me cuckold? | Were you the Clark that is to make me cuckold. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.282 | Ay, but the clerk that never means to do it, | I, but the Clark that neuer meanes to doe it, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.289 | My clerk hath some good comforts too for you. | My Clarke hath some good comforts to for you. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.305 | Till I were couching with the doctor's clerk. | Till I were couching with the Doctors Clarke. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.v.53 | Thou art clerkly, thou art clerkly, Sir John. Was | Thou are clearkly: thou art clearkly (Sir Iohn) was |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.93 | Where I have come, great clerks have purposed | Where I haue come, great Clearkes haue purposed |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.98 | dance is done! Answer, clerk. | daunce is done: answer Clarke. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.99 | No more words; the clerk is answered. | No more words, the Clarke is answered. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.ii.1.1 | Enter Dogberry, Verges, and the Sexton, in gowns; | Enter the Constables, Borachio, and the Towne Clerke in gownes. |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.V.5 | Deep clerks she dumbs, and with her neele composes | Deepe clearks she dumb's, and with her neele compo-ses, |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.173 | Am I both priest and clerk? Well then, Amen. | Am I both Priest, and Clarke? well then, Amen. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iv.91 | the priest, clerk, and some sufficient honest witnesses. | the Priest, Clarke, and some sufficient honest witnesses: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.102 | I thank you, gentle servant, 'tis very clerkly done. | I thanke you (gentle Seruant) 'tis very Clerkly done. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.392 | Clerk-like experienced, which no less adorns | Clerke-like experienc'd, which no lesse adornes |