| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.96 | Please it this matron and this gentle maid | Please it this Matron, and this gentle Maide |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.255 | The blind to hear him speak. Matrons flung gloves, | the blind to heare him speak: Matrons flong Gloues, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.39 | Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave | Maides, Matrons, nay the Secrets of the Graue |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.30.3 | an ancient matron (his wife, and mother to Posthumus) with music | an ancient Matron (his wife, & Mother to Posthumus) with Musicke |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.84 | If thou canst mutine in a matron's bones, | If thou canst mutine in a Matrons bones, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.62 | Your matrons and your maids, could not fill up | Your Matrons, and your Maides, could not fill vp |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.11 | Thou sober-suited matron, all in black, | Thou sober suted Matron all in blacke, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.i.3 | And fence not Athens. Matrons, turn incontinent. | And fence not Athens. Matrons, turne incontinent, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.113 | He is an usurer. Strike me the counterfeit matron – | He is an Vsurer. Strike me the counterfet Matron, |