| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.67 | And all th' embossed sores and headed evils | And all th'imbossed sores, and headed euils, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.127 | Beheaded publicly for his offence. | Beheaded publikely for his offence. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.15 | corn, he himself stuck not to call us the many-headed | Corne, he himselfe stucke not to call vs the many-headed |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.17 | This heavy-headed revel east and west | |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.80 | Out, you mad-headed ape! | Out you mad-headed Ape, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.354 | Bare-headed, sweating, knocking at the taverns, | Bare-headed, sweating, knocking at the Tauernes, |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.35 | Nor never Hydra-headed wilfulness | Nor neuer Hidra-headed Wilfulnesse |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.91 | And was beheaded. Thus the Mortimers, | And was beheaded. Thus the Mortimers, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.54 | Bare-headed plodded by my foot-cloth mule, | Bare-headed plodded by my foot-cloth Mule, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vii.21 | Well, he shall be beheaded for it ten times. Ah, | Well, hee shall be beheaded for it ten times: Ah |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.1.9 | a Gentleman Usher, bare-headed, accompanied with a | a Gentleman Vsher bare-headed, accompanyed with a |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.192 | Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep a-nights. | Sleeke-headed men, and such as sleepe a-nights: |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.60.2 | Alack, bare-headed? | Alacke, bare-headed? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.585 | Whose club killed Cerberus, that three-headed canus, | Whose Club kil'd Cerberus that three-headed Canus, |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.454 | Provost, how came it Claudio was beheaded | Prouost, how came it Claudio was beheaded |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.50 | Because you are not sad. Now by two-headed Janus, | Because you are not sad. Now by two-headed Ianus, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.34 | The superstitious idle-headed eld | The superstitious idle-headed-Eld |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.107 | The seasons alter; hoary-headed frosts | The seasons alter; hoared headed frosts |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.64 | Made a foul blot; if tall, a lance ill-headed; | Made a foule blot: if tall, a launce ill headed: |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.156 | We must supplant those rough rug-headed kerns | We must supplant those rough rug-headed Kernes, |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.19 | Bare-headed, lower than his proud steed's neck | Bare-headed, lower then his proud Steeds necke, |
| Richard III | R3 III.ii.90 | Today the lords you talk of are beheaded. | To day the Lords you talke of, are beheaded. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.111 | You loggerheaded and unpolished grooms! | You logger-headed and vnpollisht groomes: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.143 | A whoreson, beetle-headed, flap-eared knave! | A horson beetle-headed flap-ear'd knaue: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iv.18.1 | Enter Baptista, and Lucentio as Cambio | Enter Baptista and Lucentio: Pedant booted and bare headed. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.151 | I shall laugh myself to death at this puppy-headed | I shall laugh my selfe to death at this puppi-headed |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.99 | Her waspish-headed son has broke his arrows, | Her waspish headed sonne, has broke his arrowes, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.99 | For their fell faults our brothers were beheaded, | For their fell faults our Brothers were beheaded, |