| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.148 | And like the kind life-rendering pelican | And like the kinde Life-rend'ring Politician, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.122.2 | A pelican, my lord, | A Pellican my Lord, |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.72 | Those pelican daughters. | Those Pelicane Daughters. |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.126 | That blood already, like the pelican, | That blood aIready (like the Pellican) |