| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.9 | Run, run, Orlando, carve on every tree | Run, run Orlando, carue on euery Tree, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.20 | Carve for himself. For on his choice depends | Carue for himselfe; for, on his choyce depends |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.444 | cleanly, but to carve a capon and eat it? Wherein cunning, | cleanly, but to carue a Capon, and eat it? wherein Cunning, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.24 | To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, | To carue out Dialls queintly, point by point, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.173 | Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods, | Let's carue him, as a Dish fit for the Gods, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.58 | Stand aside, good bearer. Boyet, you can carve – | Stand a side good bearer. / Boyet, you can carue, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.323 | 'A can carve too, and lisp. Why, this is he | He can carue too, and lispe: Why this is he, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.150 | head and a capon, the which if I do not carve most | head and a Capon, the which if I doe not carue most |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.167 | He that stirs next to carve for his own rage | He that stirs next, to carue for his owne rage, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.86 | good thing. Desire to eat with her, carve her, drink to | good thing, desire / To eate with her, crave her, drinke to |