| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.149 | Hipparchus, my enfranched bondman, whom | Hiparchus, my enfranched Bondman, whom |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.13 | If the skin were parchment and the blows you gave were ink, | If yr skin were parchment, & ye blows you gaue were ink, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.457 | Baked and impasted with the parching streets, | Bak'd and impasted with the parching streets, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.112 | Is not parchment made of sheepskins? | Is not Parchment made of Sheep-skinnes? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.77 | And to sun's parching heat displayed my cheeks, | And to Sunnes parching heat display'd my cheekes, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.79 | In winter's cold and summer's parching heat, | In Winters cold, and Summers parching heate, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.75 | made parchment? That parchment, being scribbled | made Parchment; that Parchment being scribeld |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.87 | What! Hath thy fiery heart so parched thine entrails | What, hath thy fierie heart so parcht thine entrayles, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.129 | But here's a parchment with the seal of Caesar; | But heere's a Parchment, with the Seale of Casar, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.49 | Go, break the thund'ring parchment-bottom out, | Go breake the thundring parchment bottome out, |
| King John | KJ V.vii.33 | Upon a parchment, and against this fire | Vpon a Parchment, and against this fire |
| King John | KJ V.vii.40 | To make his bleak winds kiss my parched lips | To make his bleake windes kisse my parched lips, |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.64 | With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds. | With Inky blottes, and rotten Parchment bonds. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.370 | And we were better parch in Afric sun | And we were better parch in Affricke Sunne, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.360 | Nor brass, nor stone, nor parchment bears not one, | Nor Brasse, nor Stone, nor Parchment beares not one, |