| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vi.83 | The violets, cowslips, and the primroses | The Violets, Cowslippes, and the Prime-Roses |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.172 | As zephyrs blowing below the violet, | As Zephires blowing below the Violet, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.7 | A violet in the youth of primy nature, | A Violet in the youth of Primy Nature; |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.185 | violets, but they withered all when my father died. They | Violets, but they wither'd all when my Father dyed: They |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.236 | May violets spring! I tell thee, churlish priest, | May Violets spring. I tell thee (churlish Priest) |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.100 | as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me; the | as I am: the Violet smells to him, as it doth to me; the |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.12 | To throw a perfume on the violet, | To throw a perfume on the Violet, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.883 | When daisies pied and violets blue | When Dasies pied, and Violets blew, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.166 | That, lying by the violet in the sun, | That, lying by the Violet in the Sunne, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.250 | Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, | Where Oxslips and the nodding Violet growes, |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.15 | The purple violets, and marigolds | the purple Violets, and Marigolds, |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.46 | Welcome, my son! Who are the violets now | Welcome my sonne: who are the Violets now, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.i.6 | That breathes upon a bank of violets, | That breathes vpon a banke of Violets; |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.120 | The winds of March with beauty; violets, dim, | The windes of March with beauty: Violets dim, |