| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.iii.13 | Music of hautboys under the stage | Musicke of the Hoboyes is vnder the Stage. |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iv.48.1 | Trumpets, hautboys, drums beat, all together | Trumpets, Hoboyes, Drums beate, altogether. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.315 | eel-skin – the case of a treble hautboy was a mansion for | Eele-skinne: the Case of a Treble Hoe-boy was a Mansion for |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.1.1 | Flourish of trumpets, then hautboys. Enter the King, | Flourish of Trumpets: Then Hoboyes. Enter King, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iv.1.1 | Hautboys. A small table under a state for the Cardinal, | Hoboies. A small Table vnder a State for the Cardinall, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iv.35 | Hautboys. Enter Cardinal Wolsey and takes his state | Hoboyes. Enter Cardinall Wolsey, and takes his State. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iv.64.1 | Hautboys. Enter the King and others as masquers, | Hoboyes. Enter King and others as Maskers, |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.37.1 | Hautboys | Ho-boyes. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vi.1.1 | Hautboys and torches. Enter King Duncan, Malcolm, | Hoboyes, and Torches. Enter King, Malcolme, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vii.1.1 | Hautboys. Torches. Enter a Sewer and divers Servants | Ho-boyes. Torches. Enter a Sewer, and diuers Seruants |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.105 | Hautboys | Hoboyes |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.1.1 | Hautboys playing loud music. A great banquet served | Hoboyes Playing lowd Musicke. A great Banquet seru'd |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.143.4 | strain or two to the hautboys, and cease | straine or two to the Hoboyes, and cease. |