| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.i.89 | We have caught the woodcock and will keep him muffled | We haue caught the woodcocke, and will keepe him mufled |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.300 | Why, as a woodcock to mine own springe, Osrick. | Why as a Woodcocke / To mine Sprindge, Osricke, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.61 | Ay, ay, so strives the woodcock with the gin. | I, I, so striues the Woodcocke with the Gynne. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.152 | woodcock too? | wood-cocke too? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.158 | O this woodcock, what an ass it is! | Oh this Woodcocke, what an Asse it is. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.83 | Now is the woodcock near the gin. | Now is the Woodcocke neere the gin. |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.58 | thy wits, and fear to kill a woodcock lest thou dispossess | thy wits, and feare to kill a Woodcocke, lest thou dis-possesse |