| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.39 | A hound that runs counter, and yet draws dryfoot well; |
A hound that runs Counter, and yet draws drifoot well, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.38 | Even like a fawning greyhound in the leash, | Euen like a fawning Grey-hound in the Leash, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.113 | Stain all your edges on me. ‘Boy'! False hound! | Staine all your edges on me. Boy, false Hound: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.248 | This fawning greyhound then did proffer me! | This fawning Grey-hound then did proffer me, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.95 | i'faith. You may stroke him as gently as a puppy greyhound. | you may stroake him as gently, as a Puppie Grey-hound: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iv.27 | Ay, come, you starved bloodhound. | Yes, come you staru'd Blood-hound. |
| Henry V | H5 I.chorus.7 | Leashed in like hounds, should famine, sword, and fire | (Leasht in, like Hounds) should Famine, Sword, and Fire |
| Henry V | H5 II.i.70 | O hound of Crete, think'st thou my spouse to get? | O hound of Creet, think'st thou my spouse to get? |
| Henry V | H5 III.i.31 | I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, | I see you stand like Grey-hounds in the slips, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.ii.51 | Turn on the bloody hounds with heads of steel | Turne on the bloody Hounds with heads of Steele, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.129 | Edward and Richard, like a brace of greyhounds | Edward and Richard like a brace of Grey-hounds, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.174 | Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds. | Not hew him as a Carkasse fit for Hounds: |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.41 | You showed your teeth like apes, and fawned like hounds, | You shew'd your teethes like Apes, / And fawn'd like Hounds, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.93 | Hot hounds and hardy chase them at the heels. | Hot hunds and hardie chase them at the heeles. |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.67 | Mastiff, greyhound, mongrel grim, | Mastiffe, Grey-hound, Mongrill, Grim, |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.68 | Hound or spaniel, brach or lym, | Hound or Spaniell, Brache, or Hym: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.125 | of invention? Imitari is nothing. So doth the hound his | of inuention imitarie is nothing: So doth the Hound his |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.657 | Ay, and Hector's a greyhound. | I, and Hector's a Grey-hound. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.92 | As hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, | As Hounds, and Greyhounds, Mungrels, Spaniels, Curres, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.42.2 | Turn, hellhound, turn! | Turne Hell-hound, turne. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.83 | How does your fallow greyhound, sir? I heard | How do's your fallow Greyhound, Sir, I heard |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.102 | Sometime a horse I'll be, sometime a hound, | Sometime a horse Ile be, sometime a hound: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.105 | Like horse, hound, hog, bear, fire at every turn. | Like horse, hound, hog, beare, fire, at euery turne. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.64 | I had rather give his carcass to my hounds. | I'de rather giue his carkasse to my hounds. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.105 | My love shall hear the music of my hounds. | My Loue shall heare the musicke of my hounds. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.110 | Of hounds and echo in conjunction. | Of hounds and eccho in coniunction. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.113 | With hounds of Sparta. Never did I hear | With hounds of Sparta; neuer did I heare |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.118 | My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind; | My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kinde, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.11 | Thy wit is as quick as the greyhound's mouth; | Thy wit is as quicke as the grey-hounds mouth, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.353 | I do follow here in the chase, not like a hound | I do follow heere in the Chace, not like a Hound |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.48 | A hellhound that doth hunt us all to death. | A Hell-hound that doth hunt vs all to death: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.14 | Huntsman, I charge thee, tender well my hounds. | Huntsman I charge thee, tender wel my hounds, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.59 | Another tell him of his hounds and horse, | Another tell him of his Hounds and Horse, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.44 | Thy hounds shall make the welkin answer them | Thy hounds shall make the Welkin answer them |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.46 | Say thou wilt course, thy greyhounds are as swift | Say thou wilt course, thy gray-hounds are as swift |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.52 | O sir, Lucentio slipped me like his greyhound, | Oh sir, Lucentio slipt me like his Gray-hound, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.72 | I'll venture so much of my hawk or hound, | Ile venture so much of my Hawke or Hound, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.255.2 | of dogs and hounds, hunting them about, Prospero and | of Dogs and Hounds, hunting them about: Prospero and |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.188 | two brace of greyhounds. | two brace of Grey-hounds. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.497 | With horn and hound we'll give your grace bonjour. | With horne and Hound, Weele giue your Grace Bon iour. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.ii.1.3 | hounds and horns | hounds and hornes, and Marcus. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.ii.11.1 | Here a cry of hounds and wind horns in a peal; | Winde Hornes. Heere a cry of houndes, and winde hornes in a peale, then |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.ii.25 | Chiron, we hunt not, we, with horse nor hound, | Chiron we hunt not we, with Horse nor Hound |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.17 | And whilst the babbling echo mocks the hounds, | And whil'st the babling Eccho mock's the Hounds, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.27 | Whiles hounds and horns and sweet melodious birds | Whiles Hounds and Hornes, and sweet Melodious Birds |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.63 | With horns, as was Actaeon's, and the hounds | With Hornes, as was Acteons, and the Hounds |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.70 | Jove shield your husband from his hounds today: | Ioue sheild your husband from his Hounds to day, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.144 | A pair of cursed hellhounds and their dam. | A payre of cursed hell-hounds and their Dam. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.88 | hound; but when he performs, astronomers foretell it, | Hound; but when he performes, Astronomers foretell it, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.i.23 | And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds, | And my desires like fell and cruell hounds, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.100 | 'Tis too true, Arcite. To our Theban hounds, | Tis too true Arcite. To our Theban houndes, |