| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vii.66 | The night to th' owl and morn to th' lark less welcome. | The Night to'th'Owle, / And Morne to th'Larke lesse welcome. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.42 | Well, God dild you! They say the owl was a | Well, God dil'd you. They say the Owle was a |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.ii.15 | Thou ominous and fearful owl of death, | Thou ominous and fearefull Owle of death, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.56 | Go home to bed, and like the owl by day, | Goe home to Bed, and like the Owle by day, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.44 | The owl shrieked at thy birth, an evil sign; | The Owle shriek'd at thy birth, an euill signe, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.205 | To be a comrade with the wolf and owl – | To be a Comrade with the Wolfe, and Owle, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.140 | I fear too much rubbing. Good night, my good owl. | I feare too much rubbing: good night my good Oule. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.875 | learned men have compiled in praise of the owl and the | Learned men haue compiled, in praise of the Owle and the |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.881 | one maintained by the owl, th' other by the cuckoo. | one maintained by the Owle, / Th'other by the Cuckow. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.906 | Then nightly sings the staring owl: | Then nightly sings the staring Owle |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.915 | Then nightly sings the staring owl: | Then nightly sings the staring Owle, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.3 | It was the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman | it was the Owle that shriek'd, / The fatall Bell-man, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.15 | I heard the owl scream and the cricket's cry. | I heard the Owle schreame, and the Crickets cry. |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iv.13 | Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed. | Was by a Mowsing Owle hawkt at, and kill'd. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.ii.11 | Her young ones in her nest, against the owl. | Her yong ones in her Nest, against the Owle: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.6 | The clamorous owl that nightly hoots and wonders | The clamorous Owle that nightly hoots and wonders |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.97 | Unless the nightly owl or fatal raven. | Vnlesse the nightly Owle, or fatall Rauen: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.90 | I bade the vile owl go learn me the tenor of the | I bad thee vile Owle, goe learne me the tenure of the |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.58 | a lizard, an owl, a puttock, or a herring without a roe, I | a Lizard, an Owle, a Puttocke, or a Herring without a Roe, I |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.69 | The one said it was an owl, | The one sed it was an owle |