| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.72 | cuckold; a good quarrel to draw emulous factions and | Whore, a good quarrel to draw emulations, factions, and |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.228 | He is not emulous, as Achilles is. | He is not emulous, as Achilles is. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.189 | Made emulous missions 'mongst the gods themselves, | Made emulous missions 'mongst the gods themselues, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.i.29 | But, in mine emulous honour let him die, | But in mine emulous honor let him dye: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.124 | Two emulous Philomels beat the ear o'th' night | Two emulous Philomels, beate the eare o'th night |