| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.131 | My idleness doth hatch. How now, Enobarbus! | My idlenesse doth hatch. How now Enobarbus. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.33 | Either get thee from the door or sit down at the hatch. | Either get thee from the dore, or sit downe at the hatch: |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.167 | And I do doubt the hatch and the disclose | And I do doubt the hatch, and the disclose |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.82 | Such things become the hatch and brood of time, | Such things become the Hatch and Brood of Time; |
| King John | KJ I.i.171 | In at the window, or else o'er the hatch; | In at the window, or else ore the hatch: |
| King John | KJ V.ii.138 | To cudgel you and make you take the hatch, | To cudgell you, and make you take the hatch, |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.72 | Dogs leapt the hatch and all are fled. | Dogs leapt the hatch, and all are fled. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.149 | 'Tis true, the raven doth not hatch a lark. | 'Tis true, / The Rauen doth not hatch a Larke, |