| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.ii.12 | O Antony! O thou Arabian bird! | Oh Anthony, oh thou Arabian Bird! |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.188 | over your head, and show the world what the bird hath | ouer your head, and shew the world what the bird hath |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.17 | She is alone th' Arabian bird; and I | She is alone th'Arabian-Bird; and I |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.43 | We make a quire, as doth the prisoned bird, | We make a Quire, as doth the prison'd Bird, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.197.2 | The bird is dead | The Bird is dead |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.348 | I saw Jove's bird, the Roman eagle, winged | I saw Ioues Bird, the Roman Eagle wing'd |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.117 | More sweet than our blest fields: his royal bird | More sweet then our blest Fields: his Royall Bird |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.161 | This bird of dawning singeth all night long. | The Bird of Dawning singeth all night long: |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.116 | Hillo, ho, ho, boy! Come, bird, come. | Hillo, ho, ho, boy; come bird, come. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.60 | As that ungentle gull the cuckoo's bird | As that vngentle gull the Cuckowes Bird, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.91 | O Westmorland, thou art a summer bird, | O Westmerland, thou art a Summer Bird, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.110 | As far as France. I heard a bird so sing, | As farre as France. I heare a Bird so sing, |
| Henry V | H5 III.ii.19 | As bird doth sing on bough. | as Bird doth sing on bough. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.14 | That mounts no higher than a bird can soar. | That mounts no higher then a Bird can sore: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.192 | But may imagine how the bird was dead, | But may imagine how the Bird was dead, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.36 | A bird that will revenge upon you all; | A Bird, that will reuenge vpon you all: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.91 | Nay, if thou be that princely eagle's bird, | Nay, if thou be that Princely Eagles Bird, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.13 | The bird that hath been limed in a bush, | The Bird that hath bin limed in a bush, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.15 | And I, the hapless male to one sweet bird, | And I the haplesse Male to one sweet Bird, |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.89 | The rod, and bird of peace, and all such emblems | The Rod, and Bird of Peace, and all such Emblemes |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.v.40 | The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix, | The Bird of Wonder dyes, the Mayden Phoenix, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.26 | And yesterday the bird of night did sit, | And yesterday, the Bird of Night did sit, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.21 | What bird that hath escaped the fowler's gin | What bird that hath e(s)capt the fowlers gin, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.91 | Bring up the brown bills. – O, well flown, bird! I'the | Bring vp the browne Billes. O well flowne Bird: i'th' |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vi.7 | Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird | Buttrice, nor Coigne of Vantage, but this Bird |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.56 | New-hatched to the woeful time. The obscure bird | New hatch'd toth' wofull time. / The obscure Bird |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.ii.35 | Poor bird! thou'dst never fear | Poore Bird, / Thou'dst neuer Feare |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.26 | And Shylock for his own part knew the bird was | And Shylocke for his own part knew the bird was |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.127 | – for, indeed, who would set his wit to so foolish a bird? | For indeede, who would set his wit to so foolish a bird? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.128 | Who would give a bird the lie, though he cry ‘ cuckoo ’ | Who would giue a bird the lye, though he cry Cuckow, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.384 | Hop as light as bird from briar, | Hop as light as bird from brier, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.131 | A bird of my tongue is better than a beast of | A bird of my tongue, is better than a beast of |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.97 | Though they did change me to the meanest bird | though they did chaunge mee to the meanest byrd |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.V.6 | Nature's own shape, of bud, bird, branch, or berry, | Natures owne shape, of budde, bird, branche, or berry. |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.62 | Against a bird, do I with Mowbray fight. | Against a bird, do I with Mowbray fight. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.177 | And yet no farther than a wanton's bird, | And yet no further then a wantons Bird, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.182.1 | I would I were thy bird. | I would I were thy Bird. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.46 | Am I your bird? I mean to shift my bush, | Am I your Bird, I meane to shift my bush, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.50 | This bird you aimed at, though you hit her not – | This bird you aim'd at, though you hit her not, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.184.2 | This was well done, my bird! | This was well done (my bird) |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.85 | Where, like a sweet melodious bird, it sung | Where like a sweet mellodius bird it sung, |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.52 | inhabit a bird. | inhabite a bird. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.17 | Bird melodious or bird fair, | Bird melodious, or bird faire, |