| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.127.1 | Come down into the boat. | Come downe into the Boate. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.77 | The sailors sought for safety by our boat, | The Sailors sought for safety by our boate, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.i.6 | That when the sea was calm all boats alike | That when the Sea was calme, all Boats alike |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.72 | The press of boats, or pride. A piece of work | The presse of Boates, or Pride. A peece of Worke |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.i.22 | With sands that will not bear your enemies' boats, | With Sands that will not beare your Enemies Boates, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iii.46 | Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. | Fortune brings in some Boats, that are not steer'd. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vi.33 | To hazard all our lives in one small boat. | To hazard all our liues in one small Boat. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.68 | Convey him hence, and on our longboat's side | Conuey him hence, and on our long boats side, |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.26 | Her boat hath a leak | |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.59 | My boat sails freely both with wind and stream. | My Boate sailes freely, both with winde and Streame. |
| Pericles | Per III.i.13 | Aboard our dancing boat, make swift the pangs | Aboard our dauncing Boat, make swift the pangues |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.64 | From stem to stern. The boatswain whistles, and | from sterne to sterne, the Boatswaine whistles, and |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.522 | Richmond in Dorsetshire sent out a boat | Richmond in Dorsetshire sent out a Boat |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.1.2 | Enter a Shipmaster and a Boatswain | Enter a Ship-master, and a Boteswaine. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.1 | Boatswain! | BOte-swaine. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.9 | Good Boatswain, have care. Where's the Master? | Good Boteswaine haue care: where's the Master? |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.12 | Where is the Master, Boatswain? | Where is the Master, Boson? |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.34.1 | Enter Boatswain | Enter Boteswaine. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.58.4 | Exit Boatswain | |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.45 | The master, the swabber, the boatswain, and I, | The Master, the Swabber, the Boate-swaine & I; |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.99 | Under the hatches. The Master and the Boatswain | Vnder the Hatches: the Master and the Boat-swaine |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.216.1 | Enter Ariel, with the Master and Boatswain amazedly | Enter Ariell, with the Master and Boatswaine amazedly |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.35 | How many shallow bauble boats dare sail | How many shallow bauble Boates dare saile |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.42 | Like Perseus' horse. Where's then the saucy boat, | Like Perseus Horse. Where's then the sawcy Boate, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.263 | Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep. | Light Botes may saile swift, though greater bulkes draw deepe. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.ii.11 | Hung on our driving boat, I saw your brother, | Hung on our driuing boate: I saw your brother |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iii.51 | were down, I could drive the boat with my sighs. | were downe, I could driue the boate with my sighes. |