| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.174 | And I will use him for my minstrelsy. | And I will vse him for my Minstrelsie. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.156 | Tush, none but minstrels like of sonneting! | Tush, none but Minstrels like of Sonnetting. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.128 | minstrels – draw to pleasure us. | minstrels, draw to pleasure vs. |
| Pericles | Per V.ii.7 | What minstrelsy, and pretty din | What minstrelsie, and prettie din, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.45 | Consort? What, dost thou make us minstrels? | Consort? what dost thou make vs Minstrels? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.46 | An thou make minstrels of us, look to hear nothing but | & thou make Minstrels of vs, looke to heare nothing but |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.113 | you the minstrel. | you the Minstrell. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.182 | Hark, hark! I hear the minstrels play. | harke, harke, I heare the minstrels play. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.166 | Hath blazed with lights and brayed with minstrelsy, | Hath blaz'd with Lights, and braid with Minstrelsie, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.111 | To call the maids, and pay the minstrels. | To call the Maides, and pay the Minstrels |