| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xi.63 | And palter in the shifts of lowness, who | And palter in the shifts of lownes, who |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.58 | The people are abused. Set on. This paltering | The People are abus'd: set on, this paltring |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.126 | And will not palter? And what other oath | And will not palter? And what other Oath, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.59 | That palter with us in a double sense, | That palter with vs in a double sence, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.230 | A whoreson dog, that shall palter thus with us! | A horson dog, that shal palter thus with vs, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.49 | Foh, foh, adieu; you palter. | Fo, fo, adew, you palter. |