| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.196 | The dove will peck the estridge; and I see still | The Doue will pecke the Estridge; and I see still |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.27 | What is that curtsy worth? Or those dove's eyes, | What is that Curt'sie worth? Or those Doues eyes, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.115 | That, like an eagle in a dovecote, I | That like an Eagle in a Doue-coat, I |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.169 | Fare you well, my dove! | Fare you well my Doue. |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.282 | Anon, as patient as the female dove | Anon as patient as the female Doue, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.158 | wrathful dove or most magnanimous mouse. Prick the | wrathfull Doue, or most magnanimous Mouse. Pricke the |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.46 | The dove and very blessed spirit of peace, | The Doue, and very blessed Spirit of Peace. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.140 | Was Mahomet inspired with a dove? | Was Mahomet inspired with a Doue? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.v.23 | So bees with smoke and doves with noisome stench | So Bees with smoake, and Doues with noysome stench, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.ii.30 | Like to a pair of loving turtle-doves | Like to a payre of louing Turtle-Doues, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.i.49 | And safely brought to Dover, where inshipped, | And safely brought to Douer, wherein ship'd |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.71 | As is the sucking lamb or harmless dove. | As is the sucking Lambe, or harmelesse Doue: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.75 | Seems he a dove? His feathers are but borrowed, | Seemes he a Doue? his feathers are but borrow'd, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.41 | So doves do peck the falcon's piercing talons; | So Doues doe peck the Faulcons piercing Tallons, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.18 | And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood. | And Doues will pecke in safegard of their Brood. |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.37.13 | Surrey, bearing the rod of silver with the dove, | Surrey, bearing the Rod of Siluer with the Doue, |
| King John | KJ V.i.31 | But Dover Castle; London hath received, | But Douer Castle: London hath receiu'd |
| King Lear | KL III.i.36 | To make your speed to Dover, you shall find | |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.89 | And drive toward Dover, friend, where thou shalt meet | And driue toward Douer friend, where thou shalt meete |
| King Lear | KL III.vii.18 | Are gone with him toward Dover, where they boast | Are gone with him toward Douer; where they boast |
| King Lear | KL III.vii.50.2 | To Dover. | To Douer. |
| King Lear | KL III.vii.51 | Wherefore to Dover? Wast thou not charged at peril – | Wherefore to Douer? Was't thou not charg'd at perill. |
| King Lear | KL III.vii.52 | Wherefore to Dover? Let him answer that. | Wherefore to Douer? Let him answer that. |
| King Lear | KL III.vii.54 | Wherefore to Dover? | Wherefore to Douer? |
| King Lear | KL III.vii.93.1 | His way to Dover. | His way to Douer. |
| King Lear | KL IV.i.43 | I'the way toward Dover, do it for ancient love, | I'th'way toward Douer, do it for ancient loue, |
| King Lear | KL IV.i.54 | Knowest thou the way to Dover? | Know'st thou the way to Douer? |
| King Lear | KL IV.i.70 | And each man have enough. Dost thou know Dover? | And each man haue enough. Dost thou know Douer? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.124 | I have here a dish of doves that I would bestow | I haue here a dish of Doues that I would bestow |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.90 | His dove will prove, his gold will hold, | His Doue will proue; his gold will hold, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.171 | By the simplicity of Venus' doves, | By the simplicitie of Venus Doues, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.77 | that I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove. I will | that I will roare you as gently as any sucking Doue; I will |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.232 | The dove pursues the griffin; the mild hind | The Doue pursues the Griffin, the milde Hinde |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.120 | Who will not change a raven for a dove? | Who will not change a Rauen for a Doue? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.317 | What, dead, my dove? | What, dead my Doue? |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.IV.32 | With dove of Paphos might the crow | The Doue of Paphos might with the crow |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.28 | Sitting in the sun under the dovehouse wall. | sitting in the Sunne vnder the Douehouse wall, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.34 | Shake, quoth the dovehouse! 'Twas no need, I trow, | Shake quoth the Doue-house, 'twas no neede I trow |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.48 | So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows | So shewes a Snowy Doue trooping with Crowes, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.i.10 | Cry but ‘ Ay me!’ Pronounce but ‘ love ’ and ‘ dove.’ | Cry me but ay me, Prouant, but Loue and day, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.7 | Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw love, | Therefore do nimble Pinion'd Doues draw Loue, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.76 | Dove-feathered raven! Wolvish-ravening lamb! | Rauenous Doue-feather'd Rauen, / Woluish-rauening Lambe, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.286 | For she's not froward, but modest as the dove. | For shee's not froward, but modest as the Doue, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.156 | Tut, she's a lamb, a dove, a fool to him. | Tut, she's a Lambe, a Doue, a foole to him: |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.94 | Dove-drawn with her. Here thought they to have done | Doue-drawn with her: here thought they to haue done |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.i.125 | He eats nothing but doves, love, and that breeds | He eates nothing but doues loue, and that breeds |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.129 | To spite a raven's heart within a dove. | To spight a Rauens heart within a Doue. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.98 | Then a dove's motion when the head's plucked off; | Then a Doves motion, when the head's pluckt off: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.11 | Lay by your anger for an hour, and dove-like | Lay by your anger for an houre, and dove-like |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.130.1 | Here music is heard and doves are seen to flutter. They | Here Musicke is heard, Doves are seene to flutter, they |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.360 | As soft as dove's down and as white as it, | As soft as Doues-downe, and as white as it, |