| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.232 | You boggle shrewdly; every feather starts you. – | You boggle shrewdly, euery feather starts you: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.ii.48 | Her heart inform her tongue – the swan's-down feather | Her heart informe her tougue. / The Swannes downe feather |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.81 | A crow without feather, master – mean you so? | A crow without feather, Master meane you so; |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.82 | For a fish without a fin, there's a fowl without a feather. – | For a fish without a finne, ther's a fowle without a fether, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.186 | The best feather of our wing – have mingled sums | (The best Feather of our wing) haue mingled summes |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.295 | and Queen moult no feather. I have of late – but wherefore | and Queene: moult no feather, I haue of late, but wherefore |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.33 | There lies a downy feather which stirs not; | There lyes a dowlney feather, which stirres not: |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.196 | peacock's feather. You'll never trust his word after! Come, | Peacocks feather: You'le neuer trust his word after; come, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.112 | There's not a piece of feather in our host – | There's not a piece of feather in our Hoast: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.viii.54 | Was ever feather so lightly blown to and fro | Was euer Feather so lightly blowne too & fro, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.169 | And of their feather many moe proud birds, | And of their Feather, many moe proud Birds, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.83 | Look, as I blow this feather from my face, | Looke, as I blow this Feather from my Face, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.161 | For both of you are birds of selfsame feather. | For both of you are Birds of selfe-same Feather. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iii.25 | Of fool and feather that they got in France, | Of Foole and Feather, that they got in France, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.263 | This feather stirs – she lives! If it be so, | This feather stirs, she liues: if it be so, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.27 | Go to, sir, you weigh equally. A feather will | Goe too Sir, you waigh equallie: a feather will |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.180 | Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, | Feather of lead, bright smoake, cold fire, sicke health, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.67 | in't for a feather; a monster, a very monster in apparel, | in't for a feather: a monster, a very monster in apparell, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.322 | With raven's feather from unwholesome fen | With Rauens feather from vnwholesome Fen |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.104 | I am not of that feather to shake off | I am not of that Feather, to shake off |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.i.30 | When every feather sticks in his own wing, | When euery Feather stickes in his owne wing, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.62 | And, like the haggard, check at every feather | And like the Haggard, checke at euery Feather |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.153 | I am a feather for each wind that blows. | I am a Feather for each Wind that blows: |