| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.40 | thou orphans' father art – | thou Orphanes Father art) |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.106 | Turning the widows' tears, the orphans' cries, | Turning the Widdowes Teares, the Orphans Cryes, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.187 | To reave the orphan of his patrimony, | To reaue the Orphan of his Patrimonie, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.40 | And many an orphan's water-standing eye – | And many an Orphans water-standing-eye, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.42 | And orphans for their parents' timeless death – | Orphans, for their Parents timeles death, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.399 | May have a tomb of orphans' tears wept on him. | May haue a Tombe of Orphants teares wept on him. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.5 | New widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows | New Widdowes howle, new Orphans cry, new sorowes |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.39 | You orphan heirs of fixed destiny, | You Orphan heires of fixed destiny, |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.6 | And call us orphans, wretches, castaways, | And call vs Orphans, Wretches, Castawayes, |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.78 | Were never orphans had so dear a loss. | Were neuer Orphans had so deere a losse. |