| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.178 | My lord, this is a fond and desperate creature | My Lord, this is a fond and desp'rate creature, |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.186 | You have simply misused our sex in your love-prate. | You haue simply misus'd our sexe in your loue-prate: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.202 | Why pratest thou to thyself, and answerest not? | Why prat'st thou to thy selfe, and answer'st not? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.140 | That desperately he hurried through the street, | That desp'rately he hurried through the streete, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.216 | He cannot temperately transport his honours | He cannot temp'rately transport his Honors, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.218 | And temperately proceed to what you would | And temp'rately proceed to what you would |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.83.2 | What do you prate of service? | What do you prate of Seruice. |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.159 | More bound to's mother, yet here he lets me prate | More bound to's Mother, yet heere he let's me prate |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.276 | And if thou prate of mountains, let them throw | And if thou prate of Mountaines; let them throw |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.294 | justice hath done nothing but prate to me of the wildness | Iustice hath done nothing but prate to me of the wildenesse |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.157 | out again. What! A speaker is but a prater, a rhyme is | out againe. What? a speaker is but a prater, a Ryme is |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.124 | And perish ye with your audacious prate! | And perish ye with your audacious prate, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vi.54 | Then follow thou thy desperate sire of Crete, | Then follow thou thy desp'rate Syre of Creet, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.128 | And haste is needful in this desperate case. | And haste is needfull in this desp'rate case. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.137 | Father, range your battles, prate no more. | Father range your battailes, prate no more, |
| King John | KJ IV.i.25 | If I talk to him, with his innocent prate | If I talke to him, with his innocent prate |
| Macbeth | Mac II.i.58 | Thy very stones prate of my whereabout | Thy very stones prate of my where-about, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.105 | Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, | Who can be wise, amaz'd, temp'rate, & furious, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.118 | be well. We must give folks leave to prate. What the | bee well: We must giue folkes leaue to prate: what the |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.44 | Mistress Ford, I cannot cog, I cannot prate, | Mistris Ford, I cannot cog, I cannot prate |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.6.2 | Nay, but he prated | Nay but he prated, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.145 | Dost thou prate, rogue? | Dost thou prate, Rogue? |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.20 | As dissolute as desperate. Yet through both | As dissolute as desp'rate, yet through both, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.349 | Tut, tut, my lord! We will not stand to prate; | Tut, tut, my Lord, we will not stand to prate, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.170 | Thy schooldays frightful, desperate, wild, and furious; | Thy School-daies frightfull, desp'rate, wilde, and furious, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.233 | And I, in such a desperate bay of death, | And I in such a desp'rate Bay of death, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.132 | Pretty! What say you, Hugh Rebeck? | Pratest, what say you Hugh Rebicke? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.135 | Pretty too! What say you, James Soundpost? | Pratest to, what say you Iames Sound-Post? |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.268 | As well as he that sleeps; lords that can prate | As well as he that sleepes: Lords, that can prate |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.465 | Has desperate want made! | has desp'rate want made? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.119 | To those that prate and have done, no companion; | To those that prate and have done; no Companion |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.40 | To prate and talk for life and honour 'fore | To prate and talke for Life, and Honor, fore |