| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.182 | Pulled the poor wretch from her melodious lay | Pul'd the poore wretch from her melodious buy, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.i.17 | Melodious birds sings madrigals. | melodious Birds sings Madrigalls: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.i.22 | Melodious birds sing madrigals – | Melodious birds sing Madrigalls: --- |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.27 | Whiles hounds and horns and sweet melodious birds | Whiles Hounds and Hornes, and sweet Melodious Birds |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.85 | Where, like a sweet melodious bird, it sung | Where like a sweet mellodius bird it sung, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.86 | Ay, and melodious were it, would you sing it. | I: and melodious were it, would you sing it, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.17 | Bird melodious or bird fair, | Bird melodious, or bird faire, |