| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.32 | reward of valour. Do you think me a swallow, an arrow, | reward of Valour. Doe you thinke me a Swallow, an Arrow, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.x.28 | swallow my sword like a great pin, ere thou and I part. | swallow my Sword like a great pin ere thou and I part. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.161 | May that ground gape and swallow me alive, | May that ground gape, and swallow me aliue, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.25 | Whose envious gulf did swallow up his life. | Whose enuious Gulfe did swallow vp his life: |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.53 | Confound and swallow navigation up; | Confound and swallow Nauigation vp: |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.457 | Swallow them up. Now, by yond marble heaven, | Swallow them vp. Now by yond Marble Heauen, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.132 | Now swallow down that lie! For Gloucester's death, | Now swallow downe that Lye. For Glousters death, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.66 | As thou dost swallow up this good King's blood | As thou dost swallow vp this good Kings blood, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.30 | The swallow follows not summer more willing | The Swallow followes not Summer more willing, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.533 | What thou deniest to men. Let prisons swallow 'em, | What thou denyest to men. Let Prisons swallow 'em, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.97 | Will in his brinish bowels swallow him. | Will in his brinish bowels swallow him. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.171 | Now to the Goths, as swift as swallow flies, | Now to the Gothes, as swift as Swallow flies, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.190 | Like to the earth swallow her own increase. | Like to the earth swallow her increase. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.142 | Swallow their youth. Were we at liberty, | Swallow their youth: were we at liberty, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.119 | That come before the swallow dares, and take | That come before the Swallow dares, and take |