| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.74 | But she, more covetous, would have a chain. | but she more couetous, wold haue a chaine: |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.41 | covetous. | couetous. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.24 | By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, | By Ioue, I am not couetous for Gold, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.29 | If I were covetous, ambitious, or perverse, | If I were couetous, ambitious, or peruerse, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.v.24 | More covetous of wisdom and fair virtue | More couetous of Wisedome, and faire Vertue |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.79 | When Marcus Brutus grows so covetous, | When Marcus Brutus growes so Couetous, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.234 | Or covetous of praise – | Or couetous of praise. |