| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.123 | Once more to hew thy target from thy brawn, | Once more to hew thy Target from thy Brawne, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.84 | And thus the native hue of resolution | And thus the Natiue hew of Resolution |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.47 | Hew them to pieces, hack their bones asunder, | Hew them to peeces, hack their bones assunder, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.24 | O, I could hew up rocks and fight with flint, | Oh I could hew vp Rockes, and fight with Flint, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.55 | Hew down and fells the hardest-timbered oak. | Hewes downe and fells the hardest-tymber'd Oake. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.181 | Or hew my way out with a bloody axe. | Or hew my way out with a bloody Axe. |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.174 | Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds. | Not hew him as a Carkasse fit for Hounds: |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.112 | The sin is more to hack and hew poor men, | The sin is more to hacke and hew poore men, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.13 | To smooth the ice, or add another hue | To smooth the yce, or adde another hew |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.884 | And lady-smocks all silver-white | And Cuckow-buds of yellow hew: |
| Macbeth | Mac V.iv.4 | Let every soldier hew him down a bough | Let euery Souldier hew him downe a Bough, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.118 | (sings) The ousel cock so black of hue, | The Woosell cocke, so blacke of hew, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.46.1 | Than hew to't with thy sword. | Then hew too't, with thy Sword. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.100 | That we may hew his limbs and on a pile | That we may hew his limbes, and on a pile |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.132 | Let's hew his limbs till they be clean consumed. | Let's hew his limbes till they be cleane consum'd. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.3 | But in their hue, | But in their hew. |