| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.80 | ‘ Fly pride,’ says the peacock. Mistress, that you know. | Flie pride saies the Pea-cocke, Mistris that you know. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.293 | A very, very – peacock. | A verie verie Paiocke. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.196 | peacock's feather. You'll never trust his word after! Come, | Peacocks feather: You'le neuer trust his word after; come, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.6 | And like a peacock sweep along his tail; | And like a Peacock sweepe along his tayle, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.74 | To come and sport. Her peacocks fly amain. | To come, and sport: here Peacocks flye amaine: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.251 | Why, he stalks up and down like a peacock, a | Why he stalkes vp and downe like a Peacock, a |