| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.215 | be a dangerous and lascivious boy, who is a whale to | be a dangerous and lasciuious boy, who is a whale to |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.388 | Or like a whale. | Or like a Whale? |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.389 | Very like a whale. | Verie like a Whale. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.40 | Till that his passions, like a whale on ground, | Till that his passions (like a Whale on ground) |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.59 | ‘ Greensleeves.’ What tempest, I trow, threw this whale, | Greensleeues: What tempest (I troa) threw this Whale, |
| Pericles | Per II.i.30 | misers to nothing so fitly as to a whale; 'a plays and | Misers to nothing so fitly, / As to a Whale; a playes and |
| Pericles | Per III.i.62 | And e'er-remaining lamps, the belching whale | The ayre remayning lampes, the belching Whale, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.v.23 | Before the belching whale; then is he yonder, | Before the belching Whale; then is he yonder, |