| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.15 | To hurl away their pretty-coloured yew, | To hurle awaie their pretie colored Ew, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.27 | Gall of goat, and slips of yew | Gall of Goate, and Slippes of Yew, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.117 | Of double-fatal yew against thy state. | Of double fatall Eugh: against thy State |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.3 | Under yond yew trees lay thee all along, | Vnder yond young Trees lay thee all along, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.137 | As I did sleep under this yew tree here, | As I did sleepe vnder this young tree here, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.107 | Unto the body of a dismal yew | Vnto the body of a dismall yew, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.54 | My shroud of white, stuck all with yew, | My shrowd of white, stuck all with Ew, |