| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.v.5 | Then my dial goes not true: I took this lark for a | Then my Diall goes not true, I tooke this Larke for a |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.19 | Hark, hark, the lark at heaven's gate sings, | Hearke, hearke, the Larke at Heauens gate sings, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vii.66 | The night to th' owl and morn to th' lark less welcome. | The Night to'th'Owle, / And Morne to th'Larke lesse welcome. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.i.63 | clerks, I'll give thee this neck. | Clarks, Ile giue thee this necke. |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.31 | rising of the lark to the lodging of the lamb, vary | rising of the Larke to the lodging of the Lambe, varie |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.179 | With ignominious words, though clerkly couched, | With ignominious words, though Clarkely coucht? |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.94 | O'ermount the lark. The Marchioness of Pembroke! | O're-mount the Larke: The Marchionesse of Pembrooke? |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.282.1 | And dare us with his cap, like larks. | And dare vs with his Cap, like Larkes. |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.58 | Look up a-height. The shrill-gorged lark so far | Looke vp a height, the shrill-gorg'd Larke so farre |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.893 | And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, | And merrie Larkes are Ploughmens clockes: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.391.2 | Clerk, draw a deed of gift. | Clarke, draw a deed of gift. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.102 | The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark | The Crow doth sing as sweetly as the Larke |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.234 | And I his clerk. Therefore be well advised | And I his Clarke: therefore be well aduis'd |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.237 | For if I do, I'll mar the young clerk's pen. | For if I doe, ile mar the yong Clarks pen. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.261 | For that same scrubbed boy, the doctor's clerk, | For that same scrubbed boy the Doctors Clarke |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.270 | Nerissa there her clerk. Lorenzo here | Nerrissa there her Clarke. Lorenzo heere |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.281 | Were you the clerk that is to make me cuckold? | Were you the Clark that is to make me cuckold. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.282 | Ay, but the clerk that never means to do it, | I, but the Clark that neuer meanes to doe it, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.289 | My clerk hath some good comforts too for you. | My Clarke hath some good comforts to for you. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.305 | Till I were couching with the doctor's clerk. | Till I were couching with the Doctors Clarke. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.184 | More tuneable than lark to shepherd's ear | More tuneable then Larke to shepheards eare, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.123 | The finch, the sparrow, and the lark, | The Finch, the Sparrow, and the Larke, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.93 | I do hear the morning lark. | I doe heare the morning Larke. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.98 | dance is done! Answer, clerk. | daunce is done: answer Clarke. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.99 | No more words; the clerk is answered. | No more words, the Clarke is answered. |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.183 | For night-owls shriek where mounting larks should sing. | For night-Owls shrike, where moũting Larks should sing. |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.173 | Am I both priest and clerk? Well then, Amen. | Am I both Priest, and Clarke? well then, Amen. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.56 | Stir with the lark tomorrow, gentle Norfolk. | Stir with the Larke to morrow, gentle Norfolk. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.2 | It was the nightingale, and not the lark, | It was the Nightingale, and not the Larke, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.6 | It was the lark, the herald of the morn; | It was the Larke the Herauld of the Morne: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.21 | Nor that is not the lark whose notes do beat | Nor that is not Larke whose noates do beate |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.27 | It is the lark that sings so out of tune, | It is the Larke that sings so out of tune, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.29 | Some say the lark makes sweet division. | Some say the Larke makes sweete Diuision; |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.31 | Some say the lark and loathed toad change eyes. | Some say, the Larke and loathed Toad change eyes, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.43 | Above the morning lark. Or wilt thou hunt? | Aboue the morning Larke. Or wilt thou hunt, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.171 | What, is the jay more precious than the lark | What is the Iay more precious then the Larke? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iv.91 | the priest, clerk, and some sufficient honest witnesses. | the Priest, Clarke, and some sufficient honest witnesses: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.149 | 'Tis true, the raven doth not hatch a lark. | 'Tis true, / The Rauen doth not hatch a Larke, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.158 | Did ever raven sing so like a lark | Did euer Rauen sing so like a Larke, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.9 | Waked by the lark, hath roused the ribald crows, | Wak't by the Larke, hath rouz'd the ribauld Crowes, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.12 | Lark's-heels trim, | Larkes-heeles trymme. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.9 | The lark, that tirra-lyra chants, | The Larke, that tirra Lyra chaunts, |