| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.119 | Should by the cormorant belly be restrained | Should by the Cormorant belly be restrain'd, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.4 | When, spite of cormorant devouring Time, | when spight of cormorant deuouring Time, |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.38 | Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, | Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.6 | In hot digestion of this cormorant war – | In hot digestion of this comorant Warre) |