| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.38 | ‘ horn ’ – a hard rhyme; for ‘ school ’, ‘ fool ’ – a babbling | horne, a hard time: for schoole foole, a babling |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.309 | (Aside) Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls; | Let not our babling Dreames affright our soules: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.17 | And whilst the babbling echo mocks the hounds, | And whil'st the babling Eccho mock's the Hounds, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iv.23 | Like to a babbling fountain stirred with wind, | Like to a bubling fountaine stir'd with winde, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.149 | A long-tongued, babbling gossip? No, lords, no. | A long tongu'd babling Gossip? No Lords no: |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.262 | And make the babbling gossip of the air | And make the babling Gossip of the aire, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.346 | Than lying, vainness, babbling drunkenness, | Then lying, vainnesse, babling drunkennesse, |