| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.91.2 | Why, that were covetousness. | Why that were couetousnesse: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.74 | But she, more covetous, would have a chain. | but she more couetous, wold haue a chaine: |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.41 | covetous. | couetous. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.124 | The common muck of the world. He covets less | The common Muck of the World: he couets lesse |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.177 | Ambitions, covetings, change of prides, disdain, | Ambitions, Couetings, change of Prides, Disdaine, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.231 | man can no more separate age and covetousness than 'a | man can no more separate Age and Couetousnesse, then he |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.24 | By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, | By Ioue, I am not couetous for Gold, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.28 | But if it be a sin to covet honour, | But if it be a sinne to couet Honor, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.29 | If I were covetous, ambitious, or perverse, | If I were couetous, ambitious, or peruerse, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.145 | That which I have than, coveting for more, | That which I haue, than coueting for more |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.v.24 | More covetous of wisdom and fair virtue | More couetous of Wisedome, and faire Vertue |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.79 | When Marcus Brutus grows so covetous, | When Marcus Brutus growes so Couetous, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.29 | They do confound their skill in covetousness; | They do confound their skill in couetousnesse, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.127 | Scarcely have coveted what was mine own, | Scarsely haue coueted what was mine owne. |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.162 | Than in my greatness covet to be hid | Then in my Greatnesse couet to be hid, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.406 | care not for't, he will supply us easily. If he covetously | care not for't, he will supply vs easily: if he couetously |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.511 | Is not thy kindness subtle-covetous, | Is not thy kindnesse subtle, couetous, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.234 | Or covetous of praise – | Or couetous of praise. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.44 | my desire of having is the sin of covetousness. But as | my desire of hauing is the sinne of couetousnesse: but as |