| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.i.34 | When such a spacious mirror's set before him, | When such a spacious Mirror's set before him, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.22 | the mirror up to nature, to show virtue her own feature, | the Mirrour vp to Nature; to shew Vertue her owne Feature, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.118 | him, his semblable is his mirror, and who else would | |
| Henry V | H5 II.chorus.6 | Following the mirror of all Christian kings | Following the Mirror of all Christian Kings, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.74 | How farest thou, mirror of all martial men? | How far'st thou, Mirror of all Martiall men? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.84 | Whose wisdom was a mirror to the wisest; | Whose Wisdome was a Mirror to the wisest: |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.53.1 | The mirror of all courtesy – | The Mirror of all courtesie. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.56 | That you have no such mirrors as will turn | That you haue no such Mirrors, as will turne |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.137 | My heart misgives. – Say, mirror of pale death, | My hart misgiues, say mirror of pale death, |
| Pericles | Per I.i.46 | For death remembered should be like a mirror, | For Death remembered should be like a myrrour, |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.264 | Let it command a mirror hither straight | Let it command a Mirror hither straight, |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.51 | But now two mirrors of his princely semblance | But now two Mirrors of his Princely semblance, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.110 | Till it hath travelled, and is mirrored there | Till it hath trauail'd, and is married there |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.381 | Your changed complexions are to me a mirror | Your chang'd complexions are to me a Mirror, |