| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ix.87 | Were he the butcher of my son, he should | Were he the Butcher of my Sonne, he should |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.98 | The lamb entreats the butcher. Where's thy knife? | The Lambe entreats the Butcher. Wher's thy knife? |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.141 | on like a butcher, and sit like a jackanapes, never off. | on like a Butcher, and sit like a Iack an Apes, neuer off. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.210 | And as the butcher takes away the calf, | And as the Butcher takes away the Calfe, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.189 | And sees fast by a butcher with an axe, | And sees fast-by, a Butcher with an Axe, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.195 | Are you the butcher, Suffolk? Where's your knife? | Are you the Butcher, Suffolk? where's your Knife? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.25 | And Dick the butcher. | And Dicke the Butcher. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.31.1 | Drums. Enter Jack Cade, Dick the butcher, Smith | Drumme. Enter Cade, Dicke Butcher, Smith |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.iii.1 | Where's Dick, the butcher of Ashford? | Where's Dicke, the Butcher of Ashford? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vii.49 | that am a butcher. | that am a butcher. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.95 | Are you there, butcher? O, I cannot speak! | Are you there Butcher? O, I cannot speake. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.77 | What! Wilt thou not? Where is that devil's butcher Richard? | What wilt yu not? Where is that diuels butcher Richard? |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.259 | Than to be butcher of an innocent child. | Then to be butcher of an innocent childe. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.255 | Bleat softly then. The butcher hears you cry. | Bleat softly then, the Butcher heares you cry. |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.108 | Of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen – | Of this dead Butcher, and his Fiend-like Queene; |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.32 | Teaching stern murder how to butcher thee. | Teaching sterne murther how to butcher thee: |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.48 | That it may enter butcher Mowbray's breast! | That it may enter butcher Mowbrayes brest: |
| Richard III | R3 V.v.26 | The son, compelled, been butcher to the sire: | The Sonne compell'd, beene Butcher to the Sire; |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.23 | your bosom. The very butcher of a silk button. A duellist, | your bosom: the very butcher of a silk button, a Dualist, |