| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.64 | From stem to stern. The boatswain whistles, and | from sterne to sterne, the Boatswaine whistles, and |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.1.2 | Enter a Shipmaster and a Boatswain | Enter a Ship-master, and a Boteswaine. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.1 | Boatswain! | BOte-swaine. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.9 | Good Boatswain, have care. Where's the Master? | Good Boteswaine haue care: where's the Master? |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.12 | Where is the Master, Boatswain? | Where is the Master, Boson? |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.34.1 | Enter Boatswain | Enter Boteswaine. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.58.4 | Exit Boatswain | |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.45 | The master, the swabber, the boatswain, and I, | The Master, the Swabber, the Boate-swaine & I; |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.99 | Under the hatches. The Master and the Boatswain | Vnder the Hatches: the Master and the Boat-swaine |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.216.1 | Enter Ariel, with the Master and Boatswain amazedly | Enter Ariell, with the Master and Boatswaine amazedly |