| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.162 | When she, poor hen, fond of no second brood, | When she (poore Hen) fond of no second brood, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.166 | O'er which his melancholy sits on brood, | O're which his Melancholly sits on brood, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.82 | Such things become the hatch and brood of time, | Such things become the Hatch and Brood of Time; |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.141 | Why, what a brood of traitors have we here! | Why what a brood of Traitors haue we heere? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.18 | And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood. | And Doues will pecke in safegard of their Brood. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.106 | And bring thee forth brave brood. | And bring thee forth braue brood. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.93 | With all his threat'ning band of Typhon's brood, | With all his threatning band of Typhons broode, |