| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.141 | In a great pool, a swan's nest: prithee think | In a great Poole, a Swannes-nest, prythee thinke |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.1.2 | Suffolk, Vernon, a Lawyer, and other gentlemen | Poole, and others. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.78 | Proud Pole, I will, and scorn both him and thee. | Prowd Poole, I will, and scorne both him and thee. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.80 | Away, away, good William de la Pole! | Away, away, good William de la Poole, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.100 | For your partaker Pole, and you yourself, | For your partaker Poole, and you your selfe, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.114 | Have with thee, Pole. Farewell, ambitious Richard. | Haue with thee Poole: Farwell ambitious Richard. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.122 | Against proud Somerset and William Pole, | Against prowd Somerset, and William Poole, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.48 | I tell thee, Pole, when in the city Tours | I tell thee Poole, when in the Citie Tours |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.70.1 | Yes, Poole. | |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.70.2 | Poole? | |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.70.3 | Poole! Sir Poole! Lord! | Poole, Sir Poole? Lord, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.116 | This champion field shall be a pool of blood, | This Champion field shallbe a poole of bloode, |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.51 | ford and whirlpool, o'er bog and quagmire, that hath | Sword, and Whirle-Poole, o're Bog, and Quagmire, that hath |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.127 | drinks the green mantle of the standing pool; who is | drinkes the green Mantle of the standing Poole: who is |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.182 | I'th' filthy mantled pool beyond your cell, | I'th' filthy mantled poole beyond your Cell, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.208 | Ay, but to lose our bottles in the pool – | I, but to loose our bottles in the Poole. |