| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.5 | A forked mountain, or blue promontory | A forked Mountaine, or blew Promontorie |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.24 | Should in their own confines with forked heads | Should intheir owne confines with forked heads |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.300 | world like a forked radish, with a head fantastically | world, like a forked Radish, with a Head fantastically |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.259 | Were there a serpent seen, with forked tongue, | Were there a Serpent seene, with forked Tongue, |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.104 | more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art. | more but such a poore, bare, forked Animall as thou art. |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.273 | Even then this forked plague is fated to us | Euen then, this forked plague is Fated to vs, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.165 | ‘ The forked one,’ quoth he; ‘ pluck't out, and give it | The forked one quoth he, pluckt out and giue it |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.186 | Inch-thick, knee-deep, o'er head and ears a forked one! | Ynch-thick, knee-deepe; ore head and eares a fork'd one. |