| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.94 | 'Tis better playing with a lion's whelp | 'Tis better playing with a Lions whelpe, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.138 | (reads) When as a lion's whelp shall, to himself | Reades. WHen as a Lyons whelpe, shall to himselfe |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.436 | When as a lion's whelp shall, to himself | WHen as a Lyons whelpe, shall to himselfe |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.444 | Thou, Leonatus, art the lion's whelp, | Thou Leonatus art the Lyons Whelpe, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.145 | roaring of the lion's whelp. | roaring of the Lyons Whelpe. |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.109 | Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp | Stood smiling, to behold his Lyons Whelpe |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.35 | How the young whelp of Talbot's, raging wood, | How the yong whelpe of Talbots raging wood, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.283 | A freckled whelp, hag-born – not honoured with | A frekelld whelpe, hag-borne) not honour'd with |