| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.53 | And is not the grease of a mutton as wholesome as the | and is not the grease of a Mutton, as wholesome as the |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.341 | All victuallers do so. What's a joint of mutton | All Victuallers doe so: What is a Ioynt of Mutton, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.i.23 | couple of short-legged hens, a joint of mutton, and any | couple of short-legg'd Hennes: a ioynt of Mutton, and any |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.289 | I had rather pray a month with mutton and | I had rather pray a Moneth with Mutton and |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.171 | again, would eat mutton on Fridays. He's not past it | againe) would eate Mutton on Fridaies. He's now past it, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.146.1 | What's this? Mutton? | What's this, Mutton? |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.115 | And I can cut the mutton to't. | And I can cut the Mutton too't. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.96 | Ay, sir. I, a lost mutton, gave your letter to her, | I Sir: I (a lost-Mutton) gaue your Letter to her |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.97 | a laced mutton; and she, a laced mutton, gave me, a lost | (a lac'd-Mutton) and she (a lac'd-Mutton) gaue mee (a lost- |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.98 | mutton, nothing for my labour. | Mutton) nothing for my labour. |