| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.143 | not thinking on, with the hobby-horse, whose epitaph | not thinking on, with the Hoby-horsse, whose Epitaph |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.144 | is ‘ For O, for O, the hobby-horse is forgot!’ | is, For o, For o, the Hoby-horse is forgot. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.27 | ‘ The hobby-horse is forgot.’ | The Hobbie-horse is forgot. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.28 | Callest thou my love ‘ hobby-horse ’? | Cal'st thou my loue Hobbi-horse. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.29 | No, master. The hobby-horse is but a colt, (aside) | No Master, the Hobbie-horse is but a Colt, |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.154 | There, give it your hobby-horse, wheresoever you had | There, giue it your Hobbey-horse, wheresoeuer you had |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.50 | And that will founder the best hobby-horse, | And that will founder the best hobby-horse |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.276 | My wife's a hobby-horse, deserves a name | My Wife's a Holy-Horse, deserues a Name |