| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.154.1 | Was foully snatched. | Was fowly snatcht. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xii.10 | This foul Egyptian hath betrayed me. | This fowle Egyptian hath betrayed me: |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.133 | As the winter to foul weather. | As the Winter to fowle Weather: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.18 | The beasts, the fishes, and the winged fowls, | The beasts, the fishes, and the winged fowles |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.23 | Of more pre-eminence than fish and fowls, | Of more preheminence then fish and fowles, |
| 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.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.v.86 | strange fowl light upon neighbouring ponds. Your | strange Fowle light vpon neighbouring Ponds. Your |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.ii.19 | report of a caliver worse than a struck fowl or a hurt wild | report of a Caliuer, worse then a struck-Foole, or a hurt wilde- |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.i.30 | have marvellous foul linen. | haue maruellous fowle linnen. |
| Henry V | H5 II.i.53 | foul with me, Pistol, I will scour you with my rapier, | fowle with me Pistoll, I will scoure you with my Rapier, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.93 | Thou foul accursed minister of hell! | Thou fowle accursed minister of Hell. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.44 | Had not your man put up the fowl so suddenly, | Had not your man put vp the Fowle so suddenly, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.19 | That taught his son the office of a fowl! | That taught his Sonne the office of a Fowle, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.42 | Turn me away, and let the foul'st contempt | Turne me away: and let the fowl'st Contempt |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.183 | The foulness is the punishment. I presume | The fowlenesse is the punishment. I presume, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.84 | And in the end thy foul defects be seen. | And in the end thy fowle defects be seene, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.21 | What bird that hath escaped the fowler's gin | What bird that hath e(s)capt the fowlers gin, |
| 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.iii.77 | Or airy fowl make men in arms to quake, | Or airie foule make men in armes to quake, |
| 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 V.v.14 | Ah, foul, shrewd news! Beshrew thy very heart! | Ah fowle, shrew'd newes. Beshrew thy very hart: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.905 | When blood is nipped, and ways be foul, | When blood is nipt, and waies be fowle, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.3 | Thou playedst most foully for't. Yet it was said | Thou playd'st most fowly for't: yet it was saide |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.85 | We kill the fowl of season. Shall we serve heaven | We kill the fowle of season: shall we serue heauen |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.128 | But in the less, foul profanation. | But in the lesse fowle prophanation. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.174 | Dost thou desire her foully for those things | Dost thou desire her fowly, for those things |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.113 | Nothing kin to foul redemption. | Is nothing kin to fowle redemption. |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.95 | As falcon doth the fowl, is yet a devil. | As Falcon doth the Fowle, is yet a diuell: |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.208 | do anything that appears not foul in the truth of my | do any thing that appeares not fowle in the truth of my |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.122 | may creep in here; and throw foul linen upon him, as if | may creepe in heere, and throw fowle linnen vpon him, as if |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.10 | in the semblance of a fowl – think on't, Jove, a foul fault! | in the semblance of a Fowle, thinke on't (Ioue) a fowle-fault. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.29 | dreadful thing; for there is not a more fearful wildfowl | dreadfull thing. For there is not a more fearefull wilde foule |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.20 | As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye, | As Wilde-geese, that the creeping Fowler eye, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.185 | Alas, poor hurt fowl, now will he creep into | Alas poore hurt fowle, now will he creepe into |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.94 | O, ay; stalk on, stalk on, the fowl sits. – I | O I, stalke on, stalke on, the foule sits. I |
| Othello | Oth II.i.34.1 | With foul and violent tempest. | With fowle and violent Tempest. |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.199.2 | O, she was foul! | Oh she was fowle! |
| Pericles | Per IV.iv.23 | See how belief may suffer by foul show! | See how beleefe may suffer by fowle showe, |
| Pericles | Per IV.iv.37 | On whom foul death hath made this slaughter. | On whom fowle death hath made this slaughter. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.57 | Blush, blush, thou lump of foul deformity; | Blush, blush, thou lumpe of fowle Deformitie: |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.147 | Never hung poison on a fouler toad. | Neuer hung poyson on a fowler Toade. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.121 | And he that slew them fouler than he is. | And he that slew them fowler then he is: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.59 | Now I begin. Imprimis, we came down a foul hill, my | now I begin, Inprimis wee came downe a fowle hill, my |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.60 | What foul play had we, that we came from thence? | What fowle play had we, that we came from thence? |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.62 | By foul play, as thou sayst, were we heaved thence, | By fowle-play (as thou saist) were we heau'd thence, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.258 | The foul witch Sycorax, who with age and envy | The fowle Witch Sycorax, who with Age and Enuy |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.144.2 | Foul weather? | Fowle weather? |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.188 | We would so, and then go a-bat-fowling. | We would so, and then go a Bat-fowling. |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.183 | There dancing up to th' chins, that the foul lake | There dancing vp to th' chins, that the fowle Lake |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.29 | Black white, foul fair, wrong right, | Blacke, white; fowle, faire; wrong, right; |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.67 | By uproars severed, as a flight of fowl | By vprores seuer'd like a flight of Fowle, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.359 | Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares, | Let vs (like Merchants) shew our fowlest Wares, |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.50 | wildfowl? | Wilde-fowle? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.42 | And pecks of crows in the foul fields of Thebes. | And pecks of Crowes, in the fowle feilds of Thebs. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iii.51 | Fear me not. You are now too foul; farewell. | Feare me not; you are now too fowle; farewell. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.123 | The foulest way, nor names concealments in | The fowlest way, nor names concealements in |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.199 | and break a foul gap into the matter, he makes the | and breake a fowle gap into the Matter, hee makes the |