| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.171 | Than is the coal of fire upon the ice, | Then is the coale of fire vpon the Ice, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.139 | If he could burn us all into one coal, | If he could burne vs all into one coale, |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.101 | at his nose, and it is like a coal of fire, sometimes plue, | at his nose, and it is like a coale of fire, sometimes plew, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.79 | Have blown this coal betwixt my lord and me – | Haue blowne this Coale, betwixt my Lord, and me; |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.94 | That I have blown this coal. I do deny it. | That I haue blowne this Coale: I do deny it, |
| King John | KJ IV.i.108 | There is no malice in this burning coal; | There is no malice in this burning cole, |
| King John | KJ V.ii.83 | Your breath first kindled the dead coal of wars | Your breath first kindled the dead coale of warres, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.III.5 | The cat, with eyne of burning coal, | The Catte with eyne of burning cole, |