| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.93 | His arched brows, his hawking eye, his curls, | His arched browes, his hawking eie, his curles |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.300 | If she first meet the curled Antony, | If she first meete the Curled Anthony, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.57 | Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, | Hyperions curles, the front of Ioue himselfe, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.23 | Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them | Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.159 | stoop; a black beard will turn white; a curled pate will | stoope, a blacke Beard will turne white, a curl'd Pate will |
| King Lear | KL III.i.6 | Or swell the curled waters 'bove the main, | Or swell the curled Waters 'boue the Maine, |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.83 | curled my hair, wore gloves in my cap, served the lust of | curl'd my haire, wore Gloues in my cap; seru'd the Lust of |
| King Lear | KL V.i.30 | For these domestic and particular broils | For these domesticke and particurlar broiles, |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.68 | The wealthy curled darlings of our nation, | The wealthy curled Deareling of our Nation, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.192 | On the curled clouds. To thy strong bidding task | On the curld clowds: to thy strong bidding, taske |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.161 | Smells from the general weal. Make curled-pate ruffians bald, | Smels from the generall weale. Make curld' pate Ruffians bald |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.34 | My fleece of woolly hair that now uncurls | My fleece of Woolly haire, that now vncurles, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.94 | Past question, for thou seest it will not curl by | Past question, for thou seest it will not coole my |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.ii.79 | Curling the wealthy ears, never flew. I'll venture, | (Curling the wealthy eares) never flew: Ile venture, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.104 | Hard-haired and curled, thick-twined like ivy tods, | Hard hayr'd, and curld, thicke twind like Ivy tops, |