| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.135 | A drop of water in the breaking gulf, | A drop of water in the breaking gulfe, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.96 | That only like a gulf it did remain | That onely like a Gulfe it did remaine |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.91 | Follow thine enemy in a fiery gulf | Follow thine Enemie in a fierie Gulfe, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.16 | Dies not alone, but like a gulf doth draw | Dies not alone; but like a Gulfe doth draw |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.10 | As waters to the sucking of a gulf. | As Waters to the sucking of a Gulfe. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.82 | For certainly thou art so near the gulf | For certainly, thou art so neere the Gulfe, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.25 | Whose envious gulf did swallow up his life. | Whose enuious Gulfe did swallow vp his life: |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.80 | Of war's devouring gulfs and steely rocks, | Of warres deuouring gulphes and steely rocks, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.24 | That, having hardly passed a dangerous gulf, | That hauing hardely past a dangerous gulfe, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.23 | Witch's mummy, maw and gulf | Witches Mummey, Maw, and Gulfe |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.278 | Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire! | Wash me in steepe-downe gulfes of Liquid fire. |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.127 | And almost shouldered in the swallowing gulf | And almost shouldred in the swallowing Gulfe |