| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.56 | Not cowardly put off my helmet to | Not Cowardly put off my Helmet to |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.201 | Yet are they passing cowardly. But, I beseech you, | Yet are they passing Cowardly. But I beseech you, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.3 | Nor cowardly in retire. Believe me, sirs, | Nor Cowardly in retyre: Beleeue me Sirs, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.124 | And cowardly nobles, gave way unto your clusters, | and Cowardly Nobles, / Gaue way vnto your Clusters, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.62 | So cowardly, and but for these vile guns | So Cowardly. And but for these vile Gunnes, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.17 | shallow cowardly hind, and you lie. What a lack-brain is | shallow cowardly Hinde, and you Lye. What a lacke-braine is |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.6 | cowardly rascals that ran from the battle ha' done this | Cowardly Rascalls that ranne from the battaile ha' done this |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.66 | Go, go, you are a counterfeit cowardly knave. | Go, go, you are a counterfeit cowardly Knaue, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.134 | Cowardly fled, not having struck one stroke. | Cowardly fled, not hauing struck one stroake. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.109 | Cowardly knight, ill fortune follow thee! | Cowardly Knight,ill fortune follow thee. |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.103 | But I do find it cowardly and vile, | But I do finde it Cowardly, and vile, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.33 | Cowardly works confusion on itself. | Cowardly workes confusion on it selfe. |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.51 | cowardly rascal, nature disclaims in thee: a tailor made | cowardly Rascall, nature disclaimes in thee: a Taylor made |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.i.62 | Galen – and he is a knave besides, a cowardly knave as | Galen, and hee is a knaue besides: a cowardly knaue, as |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.187 | patience well. That same cowardly, giantlike Oxbeef | patience well: that same cowardly gyant-like Oxe beefe |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.102 | No. He'll say 'twas done cowardly | No: hee'l say 'twas done cowardly, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.265 | Relent? No: 'tis cowardly and womanish. | Relent? no: 'Tis cowardly and womanish. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.102 | Not a more cowardly rogue in all Bohemia. If you | Not a more cowardly Rogue in all Bohemia; If you |