| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.63 | Which beasts would cough at. Thy palate then did deign | Which Beasts would cough at. Thy pallat thẽ did daine |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.178 | A whoreson cold, sir, a cough, sir, which I | A whorson cold sir, a cough sir, which I |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.54 | And ‘ Tailor ’ cries, and falls into a cough; | And tailour cries, and fals into a coffe. |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.28 | Cough or cry ‘ hem ’ if anybody come. | Cough, or cry hem; if any bodycome: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.173 | Must be the scene of mirth; to cough and spit, | Must be the Scene of myrth, to cough, and spit, |