| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.v.102 | hats, and most courteous feathers which bow the head | hats, and most courteous feathers, which bow the head, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.232 | You boggle shrewdly; every feather starts you. – | You boggle shrewdly, euery feather starts you: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.ii.48 | Her heart inform her tongue – the swan's-down feather | Her heart informe her tougue. / The Swannes downe feather |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.79 | Ay, when fowls have no feathers, and fish have no fin. | I, when fowles haue no feathers, and fish haue no fin. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.81 | A crow without feather, master – mean you so? | A crow without feather, Master meane you so; |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.82 | For a fish without a fin, there's a fowl without a feather. – | For a fish without a finne, ther's a fowle without a fether, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.186 | The best feather of our wing – have mingled sums | (The best Feather of our wing) haue mingled summes |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.295 | and Queen moult no feather. I have of late – but wherefore | and Queene: moult no feather, I haue of late, but wherefore |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.284 | Would not this, sir, and a forest of feathers – if the rest | Would not this Sir, and a Forrest of Feathers, if the rest |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.106 | Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury, | Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.97 | feathers turn back in any show of resistance. Call him | feathers turne backe in any shew of resistance. Call him |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.33 | There lies a downy feather which stirs not; | There lyes a dowlney feather, which stirres not: |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.308 | More feathers to our wings; for, God before, | More Feathers to our Wings: for God before, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.196 | peacock's feather. You'll never trust his word after! Come, | Peacocks feather: You'le neuer trust his word after; come, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.112 | There's not a piece of feather in our host – | There's not a piece of feather in our Hoast: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.75 | Seems he a dove? His feathers are but borrowed, | Seemes he a Doue? his feathers are but borrow'd, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.viii.54 | Was ever feather so lightly blown to and fro | Was euer Feather so lightly blowne too & fro, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.169 | And of their feather many moe proud birds, | And of their Feather, many moe proud Birds, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.83 | Look, as I blow this feather from my face, | Looke, as I blow this Feather from my Face, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.161 | For both of you are birds of selfsame feather. | For both of you are Birds of selfe-same Feather. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iii.25 | Of fool and feather that they got in France, | Of Foole and Feather, that they got in France, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.i.72 | These growing feathers plucked from Caesar's wing | These growing Feathers, pluckt from Casars wing, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.160 | And take away their downy feather-beds, | And take awaie their downie featherbedes, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.68 | ‘ When feathered fowl shall make thine army tremble, | when fethered foul shal make thine army tremble, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.9 | Courage, Artois! A fig for feathered shafts | Courage Artoys, a fig for feathered shafts, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.10 | When feathered fowls do bandy on our side! | When feathered foules doo bandie on our side, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.174 | Be Mercury, set feathers to thy heels, | Be Mercurie, set feathers to thy heeles, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.49 | Hadst thou been aught but gossamer, feathers, air, | Had'st thou beene ought / But Gozemore, Feathers, Ayre, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.263 | This feather stirs – she lives! If it be so, | This feather stirs, she liues: if it be so, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.95 | What plume of feathers is he that indited this letter? | What plume of feathers is hee that indited this Letter? |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.27 | Go to, sir, you weigh equally. A feather will | Goe too Sir, you waigh equallie: a feather will |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.153 | the edge of a feather-bed! Here are simple scapes. Well, | the edge of a featherbed, here are simple scapes: well, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.266 | Of feathered Cupid seel with wanton dullness | Of feather'd Cupid, seele with wanton dulnesse |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.IV.33 | Vie feathers white. Marina gets | Vie feathers white, Marina gets |
| Pericles | Per V.ii.15 | In feathered briefness sails are filled, | In fetherd briefenes sayles are fild, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.180 | Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, | Feather of lead, bright smoake, cold fire, sicke health, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.20 | To soar with his light feathers; and so bound | To soare with his light feathers, and to bound: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.76 | Dove-feathered raven! Wolvish-ravening lamb! | Rauenous Doue-feather'd Rauen, / Woluish-rauening Lambe, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.67 | in't for a feather; a monster, a very monster in apparel, | in't for a feather: a monster, a very monster in apparell, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.172 | Because his feathers are more beautiful? | Because his feathers are more beautifull. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.322 | With raven's feather from unwholesome fen | With Rauens feather from vnwholesome Fen |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.104 | I am not of that feather to shake off | I am not of that Feather, to shake off |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.i.30 | When every feather sticks in his own wing, | When euery Feather stickes in his owne wing, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.62 | And, like the haggard, check at every feather | And like the Haggard, checke at euery Feather |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.153 | I am a feather for each wind that blows. | I am a Feather for each Wind that blows: |