| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.212 | a hen! So, my good window of lattice, fare thee well; thy | a hen, so my good window of Lettice fare thee well, thy |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.139 | of thee than a Barbary cock-pigeon over his hen, more | of thee, then a Barbary cocke-pidgeon ouer his hen, more |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.162 | When she, poor hen, fond of no second brood, | When she (poore Hen) fond of no second brood, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.51 | How now, dame Partlet the hen, have you enquired yet | How now, Dame Partlet the Hen, haue you enquir'd yet |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.96 | He'll not swagger with a Barbary hen, if her | hee will not swagger with a Barbarie Henne, if her |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.312 | myself for the love of a guinea-hen, I would change my | my selfe for the loue of a Gynney Hen, I would change my |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.224 | A combless cock, so Kate will be my hen. | A comblesse Cocke, so Kate will be my Hen. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.739 | None, sir; I have no pheasant, cock nor hen. | None, Sir: I haue no Pheazant Cock, nor Hen. |