| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.94 | He sends this bloody napkin. Are you he? | He sends this bloudy napkin; are you he? |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.139.1 | But, for the bloody napkin? | But for the bloody napkin? |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.155 | His broken promise, and to give this napkin, | His broken promise, and to giue this napkin |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.282 | Here, Hamlet, take my napkin. Rub thy brows. | Heere's a Napkin, rub thy browes, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.ii.41 | half in all my company; and the half shirt is two napkins | halfe in all my Company: and the halfe Shirt is two Napkins |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.79 | Look, York, I stained this napkin with the blood | Looke Yorke, I stayn'd this Napkin with the blood |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.159 | Keep thou the napkin, and go boast of this; | Keepe thou the Napkin, and goe boast of this, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.62 | A napkin steeped in the harmless blood | A Napkin, steeped in the harmelesse blood |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.134 | And dip their napkins in his sacred blood, | And dip their Napkins in his Sacred Blood; |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.5 | expectation of plenty. Come in time! Have napkins enow | expectation of Plentie: Come in time, haue Napkins enow |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.83 | greasy napkins, that, Master Brook, there was the | greasie Napkins, that (Master Broome) there was the |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.284.2 | Your napkin is too little. | Your Napkin is too little: |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.287 | I am glad I have found this napkin: | I am glad I haue found this Napkin: |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.318 | I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin, | I will in Cassio's Lodging loose this Napkin, |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.86.1 | Enter one with napkins and fire | Enter one with Napkins and Fire. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.1.2 | forth with napkins | forth with their napkins. Enter Seruant. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.125 | Which in a napkin being close conveyed, | Which in a Napkin (being close conuei'd) |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.140 | Thy napkin cannot drink a tear of mine, | Thy napkin cannot drinke a teare of mine, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.146 | His napkin with his true tears all bewet | His Napkin with hertrue teares all bewet, |