| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.253 | He's a good drum, my lord, but a naughty orator. | Hee's a good drumme my Lord, but a naughtie Orator. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.68 | to kiss. Very good orators, when they are out, they will | to kisse: verie good Orators when they are out, they will |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.10 | Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator. | Be not thy tongue thy owne shames Orator: |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.129 | But mere implorators of unholy suits, | But meere implorators of vnholy Sutes, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.ii.49 | Could not prevail with all their oratory, | Could not preuayle with all their Oratorie, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.175 | Prettily, methought, did play the orator. | Prettily (me thought) did play the Orator.) |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.274 | To show how quaint an orator you are; | To shew how queint an Orator you are. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.ii.2 | No, I can better play the orator. | No, I can better play the Orator. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.43 | Full well hath Clifford played the orator, | Full well hath Clifford plaid the Orator, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.33 | For Warwick is a subtle orator, | For Warwicke is a subtle Orator: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.188 | I'll play the orator as well as Nestor, | Ile play the Orator as well as Nestor, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.218 | I am no orator, as Brutus is, | I am no Orator, as Brutus is; |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.140 | That more persuades than winning oratory? | That more perswads then winning Oratorie. |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.37 | My Lord of Buckingham, if my weak oratory | My Lord of Buckingham, if my weake Oratorie |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.94 | Doubt not, my lord, I'll play the orator | Doubt not, my Lord, Ile play the Orator, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.20 | And when mine oratory drew toward end | And when my Oratorie drew toward end, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.ii.38 | Gold were as good as twenty orators, | Gold were as good as twentie Orators, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.129 | Poor breathing orators of miseries, | Poore breathing Orators of miseries, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.26 | My tears are now prevailing orators. | My teares are now preualing Oratours. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.14 | Sweet poetry and Tully's Orator. | Sweet Poetry, and Tullies Oratour: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.89 | But floods of tears will drown my oratory | But floods of teares will drowne my Oratorie, |