| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.22 | Who take the ruffian billows by the top, | Who take the Ruffian Billowes by the top, |
| Henry V | H5 III.chorus.15 | A city on th' inconstant billows dancing; | A Citie on th'inconstant Billowes dauncing: |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.10 | Even the billows of the sea, | Euen the Billowes of the Sea, |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.67 | Why now, blow wind, swell billow, and swim bark! | Why now blow winde, swell Billow, / And swimme Barke: |
| Othello | Oth II.i.12 | The chidden billow seems to pelt the clouds; | The chidden Billow seemes to pelt the Clowds, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.III.45 | On Neptune's billow; half the flood | On Neptunes billow, halfe the flood, |
| Pericles | Per III.i.46 | billow kiss the moon, I care not. | billow / Kisse the Moone, I care not. |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.57 | I never saw so huge a billow, sir, | I neuer saw so huge a billow sir, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.20 | Into the tumbling billows of the main. | Into the tumbling billowes of the maine. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.98 | Methought the billows spoke, and told me of it; | Me thought the billowes spoke, and told me of it, |