| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.viii.18.2 | My nightingale, | Mine Nightingale, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.111 | That, with the nightingale, I shall be scarred | That with the nightingale I shall be scard: |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.107 | Her voice to music or the nightingale – | Her voice to musicke or the nightingale, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.110 | And why should I speak of the nightingale? | And why should I speake of the nightingale, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.111 | The nightingale sings of adulterate wrong, | The nightingale singes of adulterate wrong, |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.30 | nightingale. Hoppedance cries in Tom's belly for two | |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.104 | The nightingale, if she should sing by day, | The Nightingale if she should sing by day |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.78 | roar you an 'twere any nightingale. | roare and 'twere any Nightingale. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.2 | It was the nightingale, and not the lark, | It was the Nightingale, and not the Larke, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.5 | Believe me, love, it was the nightingale. | Beleeue me Loue, it was the Nightingale. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.7 | No nightingale. Look, love, what envious streaks | No Nightingale: looke Loue what enuious streakes |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.171 | She sings as sweetly as a nightingale. | She sings as sweetly as a Nightinghale: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.179 | There is no music in the nightingale; | There is no musicke in the Nightingale. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iv.25 | O for a prick now, like a nightingale, | O for a pricke now like a Nightingale, |