| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.355 | He taught me how to know a man in love; in which cage | he taught me how to know a man in loue: in which cage |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.42 | Our valour is to chase what flies: our cage | Our Valour is to chace what flyes: Our Cage |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.49 | never a house but the cage. | neuer a house but the Cage. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vi.12 | Ay, such a pleasure as incaged birds | I, such a pleasure, as incaged Birds |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.9 | We two alone will sing like birds i'the cage; | We two alone will sing like Birds i'th'Cage: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.iii.31 | a clog; therefore I have decreed not to sing in my cage. | a clog, therefore I haue decreed, not to sing in my cage: |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.102 | And yet, encaged in so small a verge, | And yet incaged in so small a Verge, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.3 | I must upfill this osier cage of ours | I must vpfill this Osier Cage of ours, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.35 | And twenty caged nightingales do sing. | And twentie caged Nightingales do sing. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.84 | Is torn from forth that pretty hollow cage, | Is torne from forth that pretty hollow cage, |