| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.98 | Still cupboarding the viand, never bearing | Still cubbording the Viand, neuer bearing |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.41 | Than gilt his trophy. The breasts of Hecuba, | Then gilt his Trophe. The brests of Hecuba |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.313 | All curses madded Hecuba gave the Greeks, | All Curses madded Hecuba gaue the Greekes, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.499 | sleeps. Say on. Come to Hecuba. | sleepes. Say on; come to Hecuba. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.555 | For Hecuba! | For Hecuba? |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.556 | What's Hecuba to him, or he to her, | What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.98 | And yet too good to be your concubine. | And yet too good to be your Concubine. |
| King Lear | KL III.i.12 | This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch, | |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.i.29 | Pluck the young sucking cubs from the she-bear, | Plucke the yong sucking Cubs from the she Beare, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.7 | the court-cupboard; look to the plate. Good thou, save | the Court-cubbord, looke to the Plate: good thou, saue |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.262.2 | A space whose ev'ry cubit | A space, whose eu'ry cubit |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.20 | And I have read that Hecuba of Troy | And I haue read that Hecuba of Troy, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.1.2 | Queen Hecuba and Helen. | Queene Hecuba, and Hellen. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.143 | But there was such laughing – Queen Hecuba | But there was such laughing, Queene Hecuba |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.36 | Here is a letter from Queen Hecuba, | Heere is a Letter from Queene Hecuba, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.54 | Not Priamus and Hecuba on knees, | Not Priamus, and Hecuba on knees; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.83 | Hark how Troy roars, how Hecuba cries out, | Harke how Troy roares; how Hecuba cries out; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.15 | Who shall tell Priam so, or Hecuba? | Who shall tell Priam so? or Hecuba? |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.50 | We'll call thee at thy cubiculo. Go! | Wee'l call thee at the Cubiculo: Go. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.162 | O thou dissembling cub! What wilt thou be | O thou dissembling Cub: what wilt thou be |