| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.73 | Now might I do it pat, now 'a is a-praying. | Now might I do it pat, now he is praying, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.84 | Come pat betwixt too early and too late | Come pat betwixt too early, and too late |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.133 | pat he comes, like the catastrophe of the old comedy. | Pat: he comes like the Catastrophe of the old Comedie: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.2 | Pat, pat; and here's a marvellous convenient place | Pat, pat, and here's a maruailous conuenient place |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.183 | through the wall. You shall see – it will fall pat as I told | through the wall. You shall see it will fall. / Pat as I told |