| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xii.38 | Patient Octavia plough thy visage up | Patient Octauia, plough thy visage vp |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.34 | Plough Rome and harrow Italy! I'll never | Plough Rome, and harrow Italy, Ile neuer |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.78 | They plough the ocean hitherward amain. | They plough the Ocean hitherward amayne: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.872 | a votary; I have vowed to Jaquenetta to hold the plough | a Votarie, I haue vow'd to Iaquenetta to holde the Plough |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.86 | Sooner this sword shall plough thy bowels up! | Sooner this sword shall plough thy bowels vp. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.105 | – yoke you like draught-oxen, and make you plough up | yoke you like draft-Oxen, and make you plough vp |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.ii.28 | Let the plough play today; I'll tickle't out | Let the plough play to day, ile tick'lt out |