| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.71 | Sans fable, she herself reviled you there. | Sans Fable, she her selfe reuil'd you there. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.162 | And wondrous affable, and as bountiful | and wondrous affable, / And as Bountifull, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.ii.42 | He fables not; I hear the enemy. | He Fables not, I heare the enemie: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.9 | We know the time since he was mild and affable, | We know the time since he was milde and affable, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.25 | Let Aesop fable in a winter's night; | Let Aesop fable in a Winters Night, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.100 | the world, I recount no fable! Some certain special | the world I recount no fable, some certaine speciall |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.3 | These antique fables, nor these fairy toys. | These anticke fables, nor these Fairy toyes, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.283 | I look down towards his feet; but that's a fable. | I look down towards his feet; but that's a Fable, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.97 | An affable and courteous gentleman. | An affable and courteous Gentleman, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.245 | With gentle conference, soft and affable. | With gentle conference, soft, and affable. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.95 | Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears, | Curteous Destroyers, affable Wolues, meeke Beares: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.104 | And to say verity, and not to fable, | And to say veritie, and not to fable; |