| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 induction.9 | I speak of peace while covert enmity, | I speake of Peace, while couert Enmitie |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.3 | And in this covert will we make our stand, | And in this couert will we make our Stand, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.ii.13 | And now what rests but, in night's coverture, | And now, what rests? but in Nights Couerture, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.i.46 | How covert matters may be best disclosed, | How couert matters may be best disclos'd, |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.56 | That under covert and convenient seeming | That vnder couert, and conuenient seeming |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.10 | To lock it in the wards of covert bosom, | To locke it in the wards of couert bosome |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.ii.8 | Not honestly, my lord; but so covertly that | Not honestly my Lord, but so couertly, that |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.30 | Is couched in the woodbine coverture. | Is couched in the wood-bine couerture, |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.33 | Well, well, he was the covert'st sheltered traitor. | Well, well, he was the couertst sheltred Traytor |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.125 | And stole into the covert of the wood. | And stole into the couert of the wood, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.646 | Into some covert; take your sweetheart's hat | Into some Couert; take your sweet-hearts Hat |