| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.ii.66 | I quickly were dissolved from my hive | I quickly were dissolued from my hiue |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.78 | We bring it to the hive; and like the bees | wee bring it to the Hiue; And like the Bees, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.125 | The commons, like an angry hive of bees | The Commons like an angry Hiue of Bees |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.v.46 | More than the wild-cat. Drones hive not with me; | More then the wilde-cat: drones hiue not with me, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.81 | When that the general is not like the hive | When that the Generall is not like the Hiue, |