| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.73 | This absence of your father's draws a curtain | This absence of your Father drawes a Curtaine, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.72 | Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night | Drew Priams Curtaine, in the dead of night, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.39 | Their ragged curtains poorly are let loose, | Their ragged Curtaines poorely are let loose, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.iii.32 | Close up his eyes, and draw the curtain close; | Close vp his eyes, and draw the Curtaine close, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.61.1 | The King draws the curtain and sits reading pensively | the King drawes the Curtaine and sits reading pensiuely. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.ii.33 | Let 'em alone, and draw the curtain close; | Let 'em alone, and draw the Curtaine close: |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.ii.34 | They partly close the curtain, but remain watching; | |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.81 | Make no noise, make no noise; draw the curtains. | Make no noise, make no noise, draw the Curtaines: |
| Macbeth | Mac II.i.51 | The curtained sleep. Witchcraft celebrates | The Curtain'd sleepe: Witchcraft celebrates |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vii.1 | Go, draw aside the curtains and discover | Goe, draw aside the curtaines, and discouer |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vii.78 | A gentle riddance. Draw the curtains, go. | A gentle riddance: draw the curtaines, go: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.1 | Quick, quick I pray thee! Draw the curtain straight. | Quick, quick I pray thee, draw the curtain strait, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.84 | Come draw the curtain, Nerissa. | Come draw the curtaine Nerrissa. |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.105 | Soft; by and by. Let me the curtains draw. | Soft, by and by, let me the Curtaines draw. |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.121 | She draws back the curtains | |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.361 | The curtains are drawn | |
| Pericles | Per V.i.33.1 | Helicanus draws a curtain revealing Pericles lying on | |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.136 | The shady curtains from Aurora's bed, | The shadie Curtaines from Auroras bed, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.5 | Spread thy close curtain, love-performing night, | Spred thy close Curtaine Loue-performing night, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.59 | She falls upon her bed within the curtains | |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.1.1 | Nurse goes to curtains | |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.95.2 | rosemary on her and shutting the curtains | |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.409 | The fringed curtains of thine eye advance, | The fringed Curtaines of thine eye aduance, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.24 | And curtained with a counsel-keeping cave, | And Curtain'd with a Counsaile-keeping Caue, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.45 | Cressida) Come, draw this curtain, and let's see your | Come draw this curtaine, & let's see your |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.119 | have these gifts a curtain before 'em? Are they like to | haue these gifts a Curtaine before 'em? Are they like to |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.223 | we will draw the curtain and show you the picture. Look | we will draw the Curtain, and shew you the picture. Looke |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.21.1 | Paulina draws a curtain and reveals Hermione, standing | |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.59.2 | Do not draw the curtain. | Doe not draw the Curtaine. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.68.2 | I'll draw the curtain. | Ile draw the Curtaine: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.83 | With oily painting. Shall I draw the curtain? | With Oyly Painting: shall I draw the Curtaine. |