| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.30 | Steeples and moss-grown towers. At your birth | Steeples, and mosse-growne Towers. At your Birth, |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.3 | Till you have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks! | Till you haue drench'd our Steeples, drown the Cockes. |
| Pericles | Per II.i.34 | the whole parish, church, steeple, bells, and all. | The whole Parish, Church, Steeple, Belles and all. |
| Pericles | Per II.i.42 | have left till he cast bells, steeple, church, and parish up | haue left, / Till he cast Belles, Steeple, Church and Parish vp |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.129 | As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple! | As a nose on a mans face, or a Wethercocke on a steeple: |