| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.114 | It was a brute part of him to kill so capital a calf | It was a bruite part of him, to kill so Capitall a Calfe |
| 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 IV.ii.27 | throat cut like a calf. | throate cut like a Calfe. |
| King John | KJ I.i.124 | This calf, bred from his cow, from all the world; | This Calfe, bred from his Cow from all the world: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.22 | t. He clepeth a calf ‘cauf’, half ‘hauf’; neighbour | he clepeth a Calf, Caufe: halfe, haufe: neighbour |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.247 | ‘ Veal ’, quoth the Dutchman. Is not ‘ veal ’ a calf? | Veale quoth the Dutch-man: is not Veale a Calfe? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.248.1 | A calf, fair lady! | A Calfe faire Ladie? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.248.2 | No, a fair lord calf. | No, a faire Lord Calfe. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.253 | Then die a calf before your horns do grow. | Then die a Calfe before your horns do grow. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.638 | More calf, certain. | More Calfe certaine. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.69 | lamb when it baas will never answer a calf when he | Lambe when it baes, will neuer answere a calfe when he |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.50 | And got a calf in that same noble feat | A got a Calfe in that same noble feat, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.32 | They never do beget a coal-black calf. | They neuer do beget a cole-blacke-Calfe: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.191 | As fox to lamb, as wolf to heifer's calf, | As Foxe to Lambe; as Wolfe to Heifers Calfe; |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.124 | And yet the steer, the heifer, and the calf | And yet the Steere, the Heycfer, and the Calfe, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.126 | Upon his palm? – How now, you wanton calf! | Vpon his Palme? How now (you wanton Calfe) |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.127.1 | Art thou my calf? | Art thou my Calfe? |