| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.ii.15 | It was a crest ere thou wast born, | It was a crest ere thou wast borne, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.218 | crest up again and the man in blood, they will out of their | Crest vp againe, and the man in blood, they will out of their |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.98 | The crest of youth against your dignity. | The crest of Youth against your Dignity. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.71 | And all the budding honours on thy crest | And all the budding Honors on thy Crest, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vi.10 | When from the Dauphin's crest thy sword struck fire, | When frõ the Dolphins Crest thy Sword struck fire, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.25 | That France must vail her lofty-plumed crest | That France must vale her lofty plumed Crest, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.202 | Now by my father's badge, old Nevil's crest, | Now by my Fathers badge, old Neuils Crest, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.88 | And lay as thick upon my battered crest | And laye as thicke vpon my battered crest, |
| King John | KJ II.i.317 | There stuck no plume in any English crest | There stucke no plume in any English Crest, |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.46 | The height, the crest, or crest unto the crest, | The heighth, the Crest: or Crest vnto the Crest |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.149 | Doth dogged war bristle his angry crest | Doth dogged warre bristle his angry crest, |
| King John | KJ V.iv.34 | Already smokes about the burning crest | Already smoakes about the burning Crest |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.254 | And beauty's crest becomes the heavens well. | And beauties crest becomes the heauens well. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.17 | 'Tis not the devil's crest – How now? Who's there? | 'Tis not the Deuills Crest: how now? who's there? |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.63 | Each fair instalment, coat, and several crest, | Each faire Instalment, Coate, and seu'rall Crest, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.214 | Due but to one, and crowned with one crest. | Due but to one and crowned with one crest. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.223 | What is your crest – a coxcomb? | What is your Crest, a Coxcombe? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.367 | Marcus, even thou hast struck upon my crest, | Marcus, Euen thou hast stroke vpon my Crest, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.380 | His crest that prouder than blue Iris bends. | His Crest, that prouder then blew Iris bends. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.143 | On whose bright crest Fame with her loud'st oyes | On whose bright crest, fame with her lowd'st (O yes) |