| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.186 | To which is fixed as an aim or butt, | To which is fixed as an ayme or butt, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.29 | I am your butt, and I abide your shot. | I am your Butt, and I abide your Shot. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.251 | Look how you butt yourself in these sharp mocks. | Looke how you but your selfe in these sharpe mockes. |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.265 | Here is my journey's end, here is my butt | Heere is my iournies end, heere is my butt |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.39 | Believe me, sir, they butt together well. | Beleeue me sir, they But together well. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.40 | Head and butt! An hasty-witted body | Head, and but an hastie witted bodie, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.41 | Would say your head and butt were head and horn. | Would say your Head and But were head and horne. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.146 | A rotten carcass of a butt, not rigged, | A rotten carkasse of a Butt, not rigg'd, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.119 | escaped upon a butt of sack, which the sailors heaved | escap'd vpon a But of Sacke, which the Saylors heaued |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.131 | The whole butt, man. My cellar is in a rock | The whole But (man) my Cellar is in a rocke |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.1 | Tell not me! When the butt is out we will | Tell not me, when the But is out we will |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.25 | Why no, you ruinous butt, you whoreson | Why no, you ruinous But, you whorson |