| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.300 | If she first meet the curled Antony, | If she first meete the Curled Anthony, |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.159 | stoop; a black beard will turn white; a curled pate will | stoope, a blacke Beard will turne white, a curl'd Pate will |
| King Lear | KL III.i.6 | Or swell the curled waters 'bove the main, | Or swell the curled Waters 'boue the Maine, |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.83 | curled my hair, wore gloves in my cap, served the lust of | curl'd my haire, wore Gloues in my cap; seru'd the Lust of |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.68 | The wealthy curled darlings of our nation, | The wealthy curled Deareling of our Nation, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.192 | On the curled clouds. To thy strong bidding task | On the curld clowds: to thy strong bidding, taske |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.104 | Hard-haired and curled, thick-twined like ivy tods, | Hard hayr'd, and curld, thicke twind like Ivy tops, |