| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.52 | devil's dam; and here she comes in the habit of a light | diuels dam: And here she comes in the habit of a light |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.54 | damn me ’ – that's as much to say ‘ God make me a light | dam me, That's as much to say, God make me a light |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.291 | In Jove's own book, like an unnatural dam | In Ioues owne Booke, like an vnnaturall Dam |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.v.5 | Devil or devil's dam, I'll conjure thee. | Deuill,or Deuils Dam, Ile coniure thee: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.214 | And as the dam runs lowing up and down, | And as the Damme runnes lowing vp and downe, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.73 | Now will I dam up this thy yawning mouth | Now will I dam vp this thy yawning mouth, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.135 | But thou art neither like thy sire nor dam; | But thou art neyther like thy Sire nor Damme, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.162 | That carries no impression like the dam. | That carryes no impression like the Damme. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.176 | To th' old dam, treason – Charles the Emperor, | To th'old dam Treason) Charles the Emperour, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.i.6 | He shall not live. Look, with a spot I damn him. | He shall not liue; looke, with a spot I dam him. |
| King John | KJ II.i.128 | As rain to water or devil to his dam! | As raine to water, or deuill to his damme; |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.218 | And their dam, at one fell swoop? | and their Damme / At one fell swoope? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.98 | If they should speak, would almost damn those ears, | If they should speake, would almost dam those eares |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.28 | leave the dam. | leaue the dam. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.136 | And whilst thou layest in thy unhallowed dam, | And whil'st thou layest in thy vnhallowed dam, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.v.97 | The devil take one party, and his dam the | The Diuell take one partie, and his Dam the |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.220 | A lion fell, nor else no lion's dam, | A Lion fell, nor else no Lions dam: |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.148 | Let the devil and his dam haunt you! What did | Let the diuell, and his dam haunt you: what did |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.105 | You may go to the devil's dam. Your gifts are so | You may go to the diuels dam: your guifts are so |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.155 | Why, she's a devil, a devil, the devil's dam. | Why she's a deuill, a deuill, the deuils damme. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.320 | Upon thy wicked dam, come forth! | Vpon thy wicked Dam; come forth. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.102 | But only Sycorax my dam and she; | But onely Sycorax my Dam, and she; |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.142 | When did the tiger's young ones teach the dam? | When did the Tigers young-ones teach the dam? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.96 | The dam will wake, and if she wind ye once. | The Dam will wake, and if she winde you once, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.64.2 | Why then, she is the devil's dam: | Why then she is the Deuils Dam: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.27 | ‘ Peace, tawny slave, half me and half thy dam! | Peace Tawny slaue, halfe me, and halfe thy Dam, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.144 | A pair of cursed hellhounds and their dam. | A payre of cursed hell-hounds and their Dam. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.189 | And bid that strumpet, your unhallowed dam, | And bid that strumpet your vnhallowed Dam, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.23 | The dam of horror, who does stand accursed | The dam of horrour, who do's stand accurst |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.137 | Most dear'st! My collop! Can thy dam? May't be? | Most dear'st, my Collop: Can thy Dam, may't be |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.94 | Hence with it, and together with the dam | Hence with it, and together with the Dam, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.196 | Blemished his gracious dam. This is not, no, | Blemish'd his gracious Dam: this is not, no, |