| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.i.1 | He can come no other way but by this hedge-corner. | He can come no other way but by this hedge corner: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.64 | The roughest berry on the rudest hedge. | The roughest Berry, on the rudest Hedge. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.125 | There's such divinity doth hedge a king, | There's such Diuinity doth hedge a King, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.ii.68 | Sirrah Jack, thy horse stands behind the hedge. | Sirra Iacke, thy horse stands behinde the hedg, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.ii.46 | find linen enough on every hedge. | finde Linnen enough on euery Hedge. |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.42 | Unpruned dies; her hedges even-pleached, | Vnpruned, dyes: her Hedges euen pleach'd, |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.54 | And as our vineyards, fallows, meads, and hedges, | And all our Vineyards, Fallowes, Meades, and Hedges, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.117 | Instead whereof, sharp stakes plucked out of hedges | In stead whereof, sharpe Stakes pluckt out of Hedges |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.43 | Be quite degraded, like a hedge-born swain | Be quite degraded, like a Hedge-borne Swaine, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.48 | and there was he born, under a hedge; for his father had | and there was he borne, vnder a hedge: for his Father had |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.39 | And hedges his own way. But in this point | And hedges his owne way. But in this point, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.30 | To hedge me in. I am a soldier, I, | To hedge me in. I am a Souldier, I, |
| King John | KJ II.i.26 | Even till that England, hedged in with the main, | Euen till that England hedg'd in with the maine, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.211 | The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long | the Hedge-Sparrow fed the Cuckoo so long, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.538 | The pedant, the braggart, the hedge-priest, the | The Pedant, the Braggart, the Hedge-Priest, the |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.2 | Thrice, and once the hedge-pig whined. | Thrice, and once the Hedge-Pigge whin'd. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.i.18 | And hedged me by his wit to yield myself | And hedg'd me by his wit to yeelde my selfe |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.24 | necessity, am fain to shuffle, to hedge, and to lurch; and | necessity, am faine to shufflle: to hedge, and to lurch, and |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.10 | Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen; | Thorny Hedgehogges be not seene, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.iii.25 | I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose | I had rather be a canker in a hedge, then a rose |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.45 | Her fruit trees all unpruned, her hedges ruined, | Her Fruit-trees all vnpruin'd, her Hedges ruin'd, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.102 | Dost grant me, hedgehog? Then God grant me too | Do'st grant me Hedge-hogge, / Then God graunt me too |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.18 | At the hedge corner, in the coldest fault? | At the hedge corner, in the couldest fault, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.10 | And after bite me; then like hedgehogs, which | And after bite me: then like Hedg-hogs, which |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.i.59 | Nay, this shall not hedge us out; we'll hear you | Nay, this shall not hedge vs out, weele heare you |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.158 | Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, | Or hedge aside from the direct forth right; |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.5 | The white sheet bleaching on the hedge, | The white sheete bleaching on the hedge, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.820 | hedge, and follow you. | Hedge, and follow you. |