| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.i.21 | very politic. But couch, ho! Here he comes to beguile | very politicke. But couch hoa, heere hee comes, to beguile |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.51 | Where souls do couch on flowers, we'll hand in hand, | Where Soules do couch on Flowers, wee'l hand in hand, |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.116 | Lay couching, head on ground, with catlike watch | Lay cowching head on ground, with catlike watch |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.83 | A couch for luxury and damned incest. | A Couch for Luxury and damned Incest. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.452 | When he lay couched in th' ominous horse, | When he lay couched in the Ominous Horse, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.218 | Couch we awhile, and mark. | Couch we a while, and mark. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.147 | A couching lion and a ramping cat, | A couching Lyon, and a ramping Cat, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.16 | In loathsome beds, and leavest the kingly couch | In loathsome Beds, and leau'st the Kingly Couch, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.35 | That England shall couch down in fear and yield. | That England shall couch downe in feare, and yeeld. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.134 | A braver soldier never couched lance; | A brauer Souldier neuer couched Launce, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.179 | With ignominious words, though clerkly couched, | With ignominious words, though Clarkely coucht? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.53 | His body couched in a curious bed, | His bodie couched in a curious bed, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.36 | These couchings, and these lowly courtesies | These couchings, and these lowly courtesies |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.69 | And when thou writ'st of tears, encouch the word | And when thou writest of teares, encouch the word, |
| King John | KJ III.iv.27 | Arise forth from the couch of lasting night, | Arise forth from the couch of lasting night, |
| King Lear | KL III.i.12 | This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch, | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.153 | Your eyes do make no coaches; in your tears | Your eyes doe make no couches in your teares. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.305 | Till I were couching with the doctor's clerk. | Till I were couching with the Doctors Clarke. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.91 | And his soft couch defile. | And his soft couch defile. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.ii.1 | Come, come. We'll couch i'th' Castle ditch till we | Come, come: wee'll couch i'th Castle-ditch, till we |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.iii.13 | They are all couched in a pit hard by | They are all couch'd in a pit hard by |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.48 | I'll wink and couch; no man their works must eye. | Ile winke, and couch: No man their workes must eie. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.30 | Is couched in the woodbine coverture. | Is couched in the wood-bine couerture, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.46 | As ever Beatrice shall couch upon? | As euer Beatrice shall couch vpon? |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.228 | Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war | Hath made the flinty and Steele Coach of Warre |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.71 | To lip a wanton in a secure couch, | To lip a wanton in a secure Cowch; |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.54 | If I court moe women, you'll couch with moe men. | If I court mo women, you'le couch with mo men. |
| Pericles | Per V.i.33.2 | a couch | |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.98 | Virtue with valour couched in thine eye. | Vertue with Valour, couched in thine eye: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.34 | Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign. | Doth couch his lims, there, golden sleepe doth raigne; |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.36 | Or wilt thou sleep? We'll have thee to a couch | Or wilt thou sleepe? Wee'l haue thee to a Couch, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.90 | There I couch when owls do cry. | There I cowch when Owles doe crie, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.177.1 | These flies are couched. | These flyes are coucht. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.38 | Can couch for fear, but I will find them out, | Can couch for feare, but I will finde them out, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.41 | But sorrow that is couched in seeming gladness | But sorrow, that is couch'd in seeming gladnesse, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.182 | To make Mars spurn his drum? O, if thou couch | To make Mars spurne his Drom. O if thou couch |