| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.ii.30 | Like to a pair of loving turtle-doves | Like to a payre of louing Turtle-Doues, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.210.1 | Will these turtles be gone? | will these Turtles be gone? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.894 | When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, | When Turtles tread, and Rookes and Dawes, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.75 | I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste | I will find you twentie lasciuious Turtles ere one chaste |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.39 | to know turtles from jays. | to know Turtles from Iayes. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.207 | O slow-winged turtle, shall a buzzard take thee? | Oh slow-wing'd Turtle, shal a buzard take thee? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.208 | Ay, for a turtle, as he takes a buzzard. | I for a Turtle, as he takes a buzard. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.176 | As sun to day, as turtle to her mate, | As Sunne to day: as Turtle to her mate: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.154 | Your hand, my Perdita: so turtles pair, | Your hand (my Perdita:) so Turtles paire |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.132 | Partake to everyone. I, an old turtle, | Partake to euery one: I (an old Turtle) |