| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.321 | cowardice doth not make thee wrong this virtuous | Cowardise, doth not make thee wrong this vertuous |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.104 | and cowardice; but the sherris warms it, and makes it | and Cowardize: but the Sherris warmes it, and makes it |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.55 | And twit with cowardice a man half dead? | And twit with Cowardise a man halfe dead? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.41 | And bashful Henry deposed, whose cowardice | And bashfull Henry depos'd, whose Cowardize |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.47 | And bite thy tongue, that slanders him with cowardice | And bite thy tongue, that slanders him with Cowardice, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.ii.7 | And welcome, Somerset. I hold it cowardice | And welcome Somerset: I hold it cowardize, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.41 | The gods do this in shame of cowardice: | The Gods do this in shame of Cowardice: |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.174 | Of resolution and of cowardice, | Of resolution and of a cowardize: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.234 | When cowardice pursues, and valour flies. | When cowardise pursues, and valour flies. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.302 | I am a right maid for my cowardice! | I am a right maide for my cowardize; |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.145 | cowardice. You have killed a sweet lady, and her death | cowardise: you haue kill'd a sweete Ladie, and her death |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.34 | Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts. | Is pale cold cowardice in noble brests: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.16 | Nor did he soil the fact with cowardice – | Nor did he soyle the fact with Cowardice, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.132 | Thy counsel, lad, smells of no cowardice. | Thy counsell Lad smells of no cowardise. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.197 | They tax our policy, and call it cowardice, | They taxe our policy, and call it Cowardice, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.32 | With falsehood, cowardice, and poor descent – | With falsehood, cowardize, and poore discent: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.ii.21 | She needs not, when she knows it cowardice. | She needes not, when she knowes it cowardize. |