| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.27 | I am commanded here, and kept a coil with | I am commanded here, and kept a coyle with, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.48 | What a coil is there, Dromio! Who are those at the gate? | What a coile is there Dromio? who are those at the gate? |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.128.1 | Recoil from your great stock. | Recoyle from your great Stocke. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.67 | When we have shuffled off this mortal coil | When we haue shufflel'd off this mortall coile, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.331 | Or like an overcharged gun, recoil | Or like an ouer-charged Gun, recoile, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.11 | What need we fight and sweat and keep a coil | What need we fight, and sweate, and keepe a coile, |
| King John | KJ II.i.165 | I am not worth this coil that's made for me. | I am not worth this coyle that's made for me. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.19 | A good and virtuous nature may recoil | A good and vertuous Nature may recoyle |
| Macbeth | Mac V.ii.23 | His pestered senses to recoil and start, | His pester'd Senses to recoyle, and start, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.339 | You, mistress – all this coil is 'long of you. | You Mistris, all this coyle is long of you. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.91 | being there tomorrow, there is a great coil tonight. | being there to morrow, there is a great coyle to night, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.87 | old coil at home; it is proved my Lady Hero hath been | old coile at home, it is prooued my Ladie Hero hath bin |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.234 | Her will, recoiling to her better judgement, | Her will, recoyling to her better iudgement, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.65 | Here's such a coil! Come, what says Romeo? | Heere's such a coile, come what saies Romeo? |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.207 | Who was so firm, so constant, that this coil | Who was so firme, so constant, that this coyle |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.235.2 | What a coil's here, | What a coiles heere, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.223 | And wilt thou have a reason for this coil? | And wilt thou haue a reason for this coile? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.99 | Here is a coil with protestation. | Here is a coile with protestation: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.iii.18 | Lord, what a coil he keeps! To hear him | Lord, what a coyle he keepes? To heare him |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.154 | Of my boy's face, methoughts I did recoil | Of my Boyes face, me thoughts I did requoyle |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.20 | Recoil upon me: in himself too mighty, | Recoyle vpon me: in himselfe too mightie, |