| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.214 | A seeming mermaid steers. The silken tackle | A seeming Mer-maide steeres: The Silken Tackle, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.46 | 'Tis not your inky brows, your black silk hair, | 'Tis not your inkie browes, your blacke silke haire, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.8 | And showed me silks that he had bought for me, | And show'd me Silkes that he had bought for me, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ix.45 | Soft as the parasite's silk, let him be made | soft, as the Parasites Silke, / Let him be made |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.96 | A twist of rotten silk, never admitting | A twist of rotten Silke, neuer admitting |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.69 | With tapestry of silk and silver, the story | With Tapistry of Silke, and Siluer, the Story |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.24 | Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk: | Prouder, then rustling in vnpayd-for Silke: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.53 | Upon mine honour, for a silken point | Vpon mine Honor, for a silken point |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.199 | but in new silk and old sack. | but in new Silke, and old Sacke. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.28 | Smooth's the silkman. I pray you, since my exion is | Smoothes the Silkman. I pra' ye, since my Exion is |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.15 | silk stockings thou hast – viz. these, and those that were | Silk stockings yu hast? (Viz. these, and those that were |
| Henry V | H5 II.chorus.2 | And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies. | And silken Dalliance in the Wardrobe lyes: |
| Henry V | H5 III.chorus.6 | With silken streamers the young Phoebus fanning. | With silken Streamers, the young Phebus fayning; |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.120 | As for these silken-coated slaves, I pass not; | As for these silken-coated slaues I passe not, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.115 | Her hair, far softer than the silkworm's twist, | Her hair far softor then the silke wormes twist, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.92 | Away, loose silks of wavering vanity! | A way loose silkes or wauering vanitie, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.68 | Their streaming ensigns wrought of coloured silk, | Their streaming Ensignes wrought of coulloured silke, |
| King John | KJ V.i.70 | A cockered silken wanton, brave our fields | A cockred-silken wanton braue our fields, |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.91 | Let not the creaking of shoes nor the rustling of silks | Let not the creaking of shooes, Nor the rustling of Silkes, |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.101 | worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the | Worme no Silke; the Beast, no Hide; the Sheepe, no Wooll; the |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.146 | Why then, three-farthing worth of silk. | O, Why then three farthings worth of Silke. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.406 | Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, | Taffata phrases, silken tearmes precise, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.34 | Enrobe the roaring waters with my silks, | Enrobe the roring waters with my silkes, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.66 | silk and gold, and in such alligant terms, and in such | silke and golde, and in such alligant termes, and in such |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.71 | That silk will I go buy. (Aside) And in that time | That silke will I go buy, and in that time |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.333 | With shears his thread of silk. | With sheeres, his thred of silke. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.25 | Fetter strong madness in a silken thread, | Fetter strong madnesse in a silken thred, |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.73 | The worms were hallowed that did breed the silk, | The Wormes were hallowed, that did breede the Silke, |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.40 | Or tie my pleasure up in silken bags, | or / Tie my pleasure vp in silken Bagges, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.IV.21 | Be't when she weaved the sleded silk | Beet when they weaude the sleded silke, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.V.8 | Her inkle, silk, twin with the rubied cherry: | Her Inckle, Silke Twine, with the rubied Cherrie, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.53 | By silken, sly, insinuating Jacks? | With silken, slye, insinuating Iackes? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.180 | And with a silken thread plucks it back again, | And with a silken thred plucks it backe againe, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.23 | your bosom. The very butcher of a silk button. A duellist, | your bosom: the very butcher of a silk button, a Dualist, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.55 | With silken coats and caps, and golden rings, | With silken coats and caps, and golden Rings, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.82 | A custard-coffin, a bauble, a silken pie. | A custard coffen, a bauble, a silken pie, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.i.58 | immortal gods! O fine villain! A silken doublet, a velvet | immortall Goddes: oh fine villaine, a silken doublet, a veluet |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.207 | Thy flatterers yet wear silk, drink wine, lie soft, | Thy Flatterers yet weare Silke, drinke Wine, lye soft, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iv.46 | And make the silken strings delight to kiss them, | And make the silken strings delight to kisse them, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.70 | We turn not back the silks upon the merchant | We turne not backe the Silkes vpon the Merchant |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.28 | immaterial skein of sleave-silk, thou green sarcenet | immateriall skiene of Sleyd silke; thou greene Sarcenet |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vii.45 | No, girl, I'll knit it up in silken strings | No girle, Ile knit it vp in silken strings, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.181.1 | Canst not thou work such flowers in silk, wench? | Canst not thou work: such flowers in silke wench? |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.316 | Any silk, any thread, | Any Silke, any Thred, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.347 | The pedlar's silken treasury, and have poured it | The Pedlers silken Treasury, and haue powr'd it |