| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.100 | sconce with a dirty shovel, and will not tell him of his | Sconce with a dirty Shouell, and will not tell him of his |
| Henry V | H5 III.ii.45 | and in Calais they stole a fire-shovel – I knew by that | and in Callice they stole a fire-shouell. I knew by that |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.61 | Gracious my lord, hard by here is a hovel; | Gracious my Lord, hard by heere is a Houell, |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.71 | And can make vile things precious. Come, your hovel. | And can make vilde things precious. Come, your Houel; |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.78 | True, boy. Come, bring us to this hovel. | True Boy: Come bring vs to this Houell. |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.38 | Enter the Fool from the hovel | |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.167 | In, fellow, there, into th' hovel; keep thee | In fellow there, into th'Houel; keep thee |
| King Lear | KL IV.vii.39 | To hovel thee with swine and rogues forlorn | To houell thee with Swine and Rogues forlorne, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.62 | Do I look like a cudgel or a hovel-post, a | Do I look like a cudgell or a houell-post, a |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.145 | shovel-boards, that cost me two shillings and twopence | Shouelboords, that cost me two shilling and two pence |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.455 | Where no priest shovels in dust. (To Perdita) O cursed wretch, | Where no Priest shouels-in dust. Oh cursed wretch, |