| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.155 | In fair round belly, with good capon lined, | In faire round belly, with good Capon lin'd, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.ii.44 | The capon burns, the pig falls from the spit. | The Capon burnes, the Pig fals from the spit; |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.32 | Mome, malthorse, capon, coxcomb, idiot, patch, | Mome, Malthorse, Capon, Coxcombe, Idiot, Patch, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.i.23 | You are cock and capon too, and you | You are Cocke and Capon too, and you |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.444 | cleanly, but to carve a capon and eat it? Wherein cunning, | cleanly, but to carue a Capon, and eat it? wherein Cunning, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.520 | Item a capon . . . . 2s. 2d. | Item, a Capon. ii.s.ii.d. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.59.1 | Break up this capon. | Breake vp this Capon. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.150 | head and a capon, the which if I do not carve most | head and a Capon, the which if I doe not carue most |