| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.41 | is sin, and sin is damnation. Thou art in a parlous | is sin, and sinne is damnation: Thou art in a parlous |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.12 | By 'r lakin, a parlous fear! | Berlaken, a parlous feare. |
| Richard III | R3 II.iv.35 | A parlous boy! Go to, you are too shrewd. | A parlous Boy: go too, you are too shrew'd. |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.154 | No doubt, no doubt. O, 'tis a parlous boy, | No doubt, no doubt: Oh 'tis a perillous Boy, |