| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.114 | With thy grapes our hairs be crowned. | With thy Grapes our haires be Crown'd. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xi.13 | My very hairs do mutiny, for the white | My very haires do mutiny: for the white |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.48 | Spread o'er the silver waves thy golden hairs | Spread ore the siluer waues thy golden haires; |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.134 | In my respect, than all the hairs above thee, | In my respect, then all the Heires aboue thee, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.455 | white hairs do witness it, but that he is, saving your reverence, | white hayres doe witnesse it: but that hee is (sauing your reuerence) |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.51 | How ill white hairs become a fool and jester. | How ill white haires become a Foole, and Iester? |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.13 | He bounds from the earth, as if his entrails were hairs – | he bounds from the Earth, as if his entrayles were hayres: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.40 | Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave. | Would bring white haires, vnto a Quiet graue. |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.144 | O, let us have him, for his silver hairs | O let vs haue him, for his Siluer haires |
| King John | KJ III.iv.62 | In the fair multitude of those her hairs! | In the faire multitude of those her haires; |
| King John | KJ III.iv.68.2 | Bind up your hairs. | Binde vp your haires. |
| King John | KJ III.iv.72 | As they have given these hairs their liberty!’ | As they haue giuen these hayres their libertie: |
| King Lear | KL III.vii.38 | These hairs which thou dost ravish from my chin | These haires which thou dost rauish from my chin |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.97 | like a dog and told me I had the white hairs in my beard. | like a Dogge, and told mee I had the white hayres in my Beard, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.85 | Her amber hairs for foul hath amber quoted. | Her Amber haires for foule hath amber coted. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.140 | One, her hairs were gold; crystal the other's eyes. | On her haires were Gold, Christall the others eyes. |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.87 | Had I as many sons as I have hairs | Had I as many Sonnes, as I haue haires, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.8 | comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives | comes sooner by white haires, but competencie liues |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.120 | Should sunder such sweet friends. Here in her hairs | Should sunder such sweet friends: here in her haires |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.3 | profess requital to a hair's breadth, not only, Mistress | professe requitall to a haires bredth, not onely Mist. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.65 | And with grey hairs and bruise of many days, | And with grey haires and bruise of many daies, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.75 | Had all his hairs been lives, my great revenge | Had all his haires bin liues, my great Reuenge |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.89 | I have cried her almost to the number of her hairs. | I haue cryde her almost to the number of her haires, |
| Pericles | Per IV.iv.28 | Never to wash his face, nor cut his hairs. | Neuer to wash his face, nor cut his hayres: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.90 | And bakes the elf-locks in foul sluttish hairs, | & bakes the Elk-locks in foule sluttish haires, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.113 | know he has not past three or four hairs on his chin – | know he has not past three or foure haires on his chinne. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.158 | Quoth she: ‘ Here's but two-and-fifty hairs on | Quoth shee, heere's but two and fifty haires on |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.162 | and fifty hairs,’ quoth he, ‘ and one white: that white | and fiftie haires quoth hee, and one white, that white |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.164 | quoth she, ‘ which of these hairs is Paris, my husband?’ | quoth she, which of these haires is Paris my husband? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.344 | than hairs, and more wealth than faults. | then haires, and more wealth then faults. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.353 | And more faults than hairs – | And more faults then haires. |