| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.5 | A forked mountain, or blue promontory | A forked Mountaine, or blew Promontorie |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.358 | A lean cheek, which you have not; a blue eye | A leane cheeke, which you haue not: a blew eie |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.201 | They'll suck our breath, or pinch us black and blue. | They'll sucke our breath, or pinch vs blacke and blew. |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.23 | With blue of heaven's own tinct. But my design. | With Blew of Heauens owne tinct. But my designe. |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.250.1 | Of blue Olympus. | Of blew Olympus. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iii.1.1 | Enter Gloucester, with his servingmen in blue coats | Enter Gloster, with his Seruing-men. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iii.47 | Blue coats to tawny coats! Priest, beware your beard; | Blew Coats to Tawny Coats. Priest, beware your Beard, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.50 | And when the cross blue lightning seemed to open | And when the crosse blew Lightning seem'd to open |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.883 | When daisies pied and violets blue | When Dasies pied, and Violets blew, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.v.103 | heart, is beaten black and blue, that you cannot see a | heart) is beaten blacke and blew, that you cannot see a |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.v.105 | What tellest thou me of black and blue? I | What tell'st thou mee of blacke, and blew? I |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.45 | There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry. | There pinch the Maids as blew as Bill-berry, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.70 | In emerald tufts, flowers purple, blue, and white, | In Emrold-tuffes, Flowres purple, blew, and white, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.39 | Even till we make the main and th' aerial blue | Euen till we make the Maine, and th'Eriall blew, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.181 | The lights burn blue. It is now dead midnight. | The Lights burne blew. It is not dead midnight. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.65 | boot-hose on the other, gartered with a red and blue | boot-hose on the other, gartred with a red and blew |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.81 | combed, their blue coats brushed, and their garters | comb'd, their blew coats brush'd, and their garters |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.80 | And with each end of thy blue bow dost crown | And with each end of thy blew bowe do'st crowne |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.182 | Engenders the black toad and adder blue, | Engenders the blacke Toad, and Adder blew, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.380 | His crest that prouder than blue Iris bends. | His Crest, that prouder then blew Iris bends. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.10 | we will fool him black and blue – shall we not, Sir | we will foole him blacke and blew, shall we not sir |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.54 | With hand armipotent from forth blue clouds | With hand armenypotent from forth blew clowdes, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.13.2 | Blue, my lord. | Blew (my Lord.) |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.15.1 | That has been blue, but not her eyebrows. | That ha's beene blew, but not her eye-browes. |