| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.215 | be a dangerous and lascivious boy, who is a whale to | be a dangerous and lasciuious boy, who is a whale to |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.65 | She hales him up and down | She hales him vp and downe. |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iv.36 | And hale him up and down, all swearing if | And hale him vp and downe; all swearing, if |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.388 | Or like a whale. | Or like a Whale? |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.389 | Very like a whale. | Verie like a Whale. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.19 | And be no more an exhaled meteor, | And be no more an exhall'd Meteor, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.40 | Till that his passions, like a whale on ground, | Till that his passions (like a Whale on ground) |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.35 | Haled thither | Hall'd thither |
| Henry V | H5 II.i.59 | Therefore exhale! | Therefore exhale. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.16 | Leaving them but the shales and husks of men. | Leauing them but the shales and huskes of men. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.149 | I'll hale the Dauphin headlong from his throne; | Ile hale the Dolphin headlong from his Throne, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.3 | Even like a man new haled from the rack, | Euen like a man new haled from the Wrack, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.64 | Although ye hale me to a violent death. | Although ye hale me to a violent death. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.133 | Hale him away, and let him talk no more. | Hale him away, and let him talke no more: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.viii.55 | as this multitude? The name of Henry the Fifth hales | as this multitude? The name of Henry the fift, hales |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.68 | Exhalest this vapour-vow; in thee it is. | Exhalest this vapor-vow, in thee it is: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.332 | To show his teeth as white as whale's bone; | To shew his teeth as white as Whales bone. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.59 | ‘ Greensleeves.’ What tempest, I trow, threw this whale, | Greensleeues: What tempest (I troa) threw this Whale, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.57 | it not strange that sheep's guts should hale souls out of | it not strange that sheepes guts should hale soules out of |
| Othello | Oth II.i.137 | laugh i'th' alehouse. What miserable praise hast thou for | laugh i'th'Alehouse. What miserable praise hast thou for |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.139 | So hangs and lolls and weeps upon me, so hales | So hangs, and lolls, and weepes vpon me: / So shakes, |
| Pericles | Per II.i.30 | misers to nothing so fitly as to a whale; 'a plays and | Misers to nothing so fitly, / As to a Whale; a playes and |
| Pericles | Per II.i.32 | devour them all at a mouthful. Such whales have I heard | deuowre them all at a mouthfull: / Such Whales haue I heard |
| Pericles | Per III.i.62 | And e'er-remaining lamps, the belching whale | The ayre remayning lampes, the belching Whale, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.58 | For 'tis thy presence that exhales this blood | For 'tis thy presence that exhales this blood |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.165 | And what these sorrows could not thence exhale, | And what these sorrowes could not thence exhale, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.13 | It is some meteor that the sun exhales | It is some Meteor that the Sun exhales, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.171 | She sings as sweetly as a nightingale. | She sings as sweetly as a Nightinghale: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.i.97 | Thus strangers may be haled and abused. O | Thus strangers may be haild and abusd: oh |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.51 | To hale thy vengeful waggon swift away, | To hale thy vengefull Waggon swift away, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.142 | And hither hale that misbelieving Moor | And hither hale that misbelieuing Moore, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.6.1 | And hale him hither. | And hale him hither. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.v.23 | Before the belching whale; then is he yonder, | Before the belching Whale; then is he yonder, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.58 | cannot hale them together. For Andrew, if he were | cannot hale them together. For Andrew, if he were |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.100 | Haled out to murder. Myself on every post | Hal'd out to murther. My selfe on euery Post |