| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.24 | No way excuse his foils when we do bear | No way excuse his foyles, when we do beare |
| As You Like It | AYL I.i.122 | would be loath to foil him, as I must for my own honour | would bee loth to foyle him, as I must for my owne honour |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.175 | foiled, there is but one shamed that was never gracious; | foil'd, there is but one sham'd that was neuer gracious: |
| As You Like It | AYL II.ii.14 | That did but lately foil the sinewy Charles, | That did but lately foile the synowie Charles, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ix.48 | Or foiled some debile wretch, which without note | or foyl'd some debile Wretch, / Which without note, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.120 | The consequence o'th' crown, and must not foil | The consequence o'th'Crowne, and must not foyle |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.321 | knight shall use his foil and target; the lover shall not | Knight shal vse his Foyle and Target: the Louer shall not |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.135 | Will not peruse the foils, so that with ease, | Will not peruse the Foiles? So that with ease, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.172 | foils be brought, the gentleman willing, and the King | Foyles bee brought, the Gentleman willing, and the King |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.219.4 | foils, daggers, and gauntlets | |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.248.1 | Give us the foils. Come on. | Giue vs the Foyles: Come on. |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.249 | I'll be your foil, Laertes. In mine ignorance | Ile be your foile Laertes, in mine ignorance, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.253 | Give them the foils, young Osrick. Cousin Hamlet, | Giue them the Foyles yong Osricke, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.259 | This likes me well. These foils have all a length? | This likes me well, / These Foyles haue all a length. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.213 | Than that which hath no foil to set it off. | Then that which hath no foyle to set it off. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.chorus.50 | With four or five most vile and ragged foils, | With foure or fiue most vile and ragged foyles, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.11 | One sudden foil shall never breed distrust. | One sudden Foyle shall neuer breed distrust. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.23 | Before that England give the French the foil. | Before that England giue the French the foyle. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.42 | And make him, naked, foil a man at arms. | And make him, naked, foyle a man at Armes. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.142 | My gracious sovereign, France hath ta'en the foil, | My gratious soueraigne, Fraunce hath tane the foyle, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.77 | If thou have uttered them to foil my fame | If thou haue vttred them to foile my fame, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.36 | Hath with a stone foiled twenty stout Goliaths; | Hath with a stone foild twentie stout Goliahs, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.13 | And yours as blunt as the fencer's foils, which | And yours, as blunt as the Fencers foiles, which |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.266 | Esteem as foil wherein thou art to set | Esteeme a soyle, wherein thou art to set |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.251 | A base foul stone, made precious by the foil | A base foule Stone, made precious by the soyle |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.46 | And put it to the foil. But you, O you, | And put it to the foile. But you, O you, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.372 | Should he 'scape Hector fair. If he were foiled, | Should he scape Hector faire. If he were foyld, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.26 | Is but his foil; to him, a mere dull shadow. | Is but his foyle, to him, a meere dull shadow, |