| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.59 | For I the ballad will repeat | for I the Ballad will repeate, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.172 | Traduced by odious ballads my maiden's name; | Traduc'd by odious ballads: my maidens name |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.216 | Ballad us out o' tune. The quick comedians | Ballads vs out a Tune. The quicke Comedians |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.149 | Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad | Sighing like Furnace, with a wofull ballad |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.227 | increase tailors, and breed ballad-makers. | encrease Taylors, / and breed Ballad-makers. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.ii.44 | ballads made on you all, and sung to filthy tunes, let a | Ballads made on all, and sung to filthy tunes, let a |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.124 | Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers. | Then one of these same Meeter Ballad-mongers: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.47 | particular ballad else, with mine own picture on the | particular Ballad, with mine owne Picture on the |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.158 | but a ballad. A good leg will fall; a straight back will | but a Ballad; a good Legge will fall, a strait Backe will |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.104 | Is there not a ballad, boy, of the King and the | Is there not a ballet Boy, of the King and the |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.106 | The world was very guilty of such a ballad some | The world was very guilty of such a Ballet some |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.212 | Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream. It shall be | PeterQuince to write a ballet of this dreame, it shall be |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.232 | mine eyes with a ballad-maker's pen and hang me up | mine eyes with a Ballet-makers penne, and hang me vp |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.187 | them as he had eaten ballads and all men's ears grew to | them as he had eaten ballads, and all mens eares grew to |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.190 | love a ballad but even too well, if it be doleful matter | loue a ballad but euen too well, if it be dolefull matter |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.257 | What hast here? Ballads? | What hast heere? Ballads? |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.258 | Pray now, buy some. I love a ballad in print a-life, | Pray now buy some: I loue a ballet in print, a life, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.271 | Come on, lay it by, and let's first see more ballads; | Come-on, lay it by: and let's first see moe Ballads: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.273 | Here's another ballad, of a fish that appeared | Here's another ballad of a Fish, that appeared |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.275 | forty thousand fathom above water, and sung this ballad | fortie thousand fadom aboue water, & sung this ballad |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.278 | not exchange flesh with one that loved her. The ballad | not exchange flesh with one that lou'd her: The Ballad |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.284 | This is a merry ballad, but a very pretty one. | This is a merry ballad, but a very pretty one. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.595 | glass, pomander, brooch, table-book, ballad, knife, tape, | Glasse, Pomander, Browch, Table-booke, Ballad, Knife, Tape, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.24 | wonder is broken out within this hour that ballad-makers | wonder is broken out within this houre, that Ballad-makers |