| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.94 | 'Tis better playing with a lion's whelp | 'Tis better playing with a Lions whelpe, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.138 | (reads) When as a lion's whelp shall, to himself | Reades. WHen as a Lyons whelpe, shall to himselfe |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.436 | When as a lion's whelp shall, to himself | WHen as a Lyons whelpe, shall to himselfe |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.444 | Thou, Leonatus, art the lion's whelp, | Thou Leonatus art the Lyons Whelpe, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.145 | roaring of the lion's whelp. | roaring of the Lyons Whelpe. |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.109 | Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp | Stood smiling, to behold his Lyons Whelpe |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.v.26 | Now, like to whelps, we crying run away. | Now like to Whelpes, we crying runne away. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.35 | How the young whelp of Talbot's, raging wood, | How the yong whelpe of Talbots raging wood, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.161 | Like to a chaos, or an unlicked bear-whelp | Like to a Chaos, or an vn-lick'd Beare-whelpe, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.17 | A lioness hath whelped in the streets, | A Lionnesse hath whelped in the streets, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.283 | A freckled whelp, hag-born – not honoured with | A frekelld whelpe, hag-borne) not honour'd with |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.89 | Thou wast whelped a dog, and thou shalt famish a | Thou was't whelpt a Dogge, and thou shalt famish a |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.281 | Two of thy whelps, fell curs of bloody kind, | Two of thy whelpes, fell Curs of bloody kind |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.95 | But if you hunt these bear-whelps, then beware: | But if you hunt these Beare-whelpes, then beware |