| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.9 | Run, run, Orlando, carve on every tree | Run, run Orlando, carue on euery Tree, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.168 | name should be hanged and carved upon these trees? | name should be hang'd and carued vpon these trees? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.127 | Unless I spake, or looked, or touched, or carved to thee. | Vnlesse I spake, or look'd, or touch'd, or caru'd to thee. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.20 | Carve for himself. For on his choice depends | Carue for himselfe; for, on his choyce depends |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.444 | cleanly, but to carve a capon and eat it? Wherein cunning, | cleanly, but to carue a Capon, and eat it? wherein Cunning, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.301 | carved upon it with a knife. 'A was so forlorn that his | caru'd vpon it with a Knife. Hee was so forlorne, that his |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.24 | To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, | To carue out Dialls queintly, point by point, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.173 | Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods, | Let's carue him, as a Dish fit for the Gods, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.97 | That, in despite, I carved my passage forth, | That in despight I craud my passage forth, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.58 | Stand aside, good bearer. Boyet, you can carve – | Stand a side good bearer. / Boyet, you can carue, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.323 | 'A can carve too, and lisp. Why, this is he | He can carue too, and lispe: Why this is he, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.613 | The carved bone face on a flask. | The caru'd-bone face on a Flaske. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.ii.19 | Like valour's minion carved out his passage | (Like Valours Minion) caru'd out his passage, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.41 | she carves, she gives the leer of invitation. I can construe | shee carues: she giues the leere of inuitation: I can construe |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.150 | head and a capon, the which if I do not carve most | head and a Capon, the which if I doe not carue most |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.167 | He that stirs next to carve for his own rage | He that stirs next, to carue for his owne rage, |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.143 | Be his own carver, and cut out his way | Be his owne Caruer, and cut out his way, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.152 | My subjects for a pair of carved saints, | My Subiects, for a payre of carued Saints, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.89 | What, up and down carved like an apple-tart? | What, vp and downe caru'd like an apple Tart? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.139 | Have with my knife carved in Roman letters, | Haue with my knife carued in Romaine Letters, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.86 | good thing. Desire to eat with her, carve her, drink to | good thing, desire / To eate with her, crave her, drinke to |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.30 | So much the more our carver's excellence, | So much the more our Caruers excellence, |