| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.77 | Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt. | Some Innocents scape not the thunderbolt: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.6 | Which shackles accidents and bolts up change; | Which shackles accedents, and bolts vp change; |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.201 | If I had a thunderbolt in mine eye, I can tell who | If I had a thunderbolt in mine eie, I can tell who |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.62 | According to the fool's bolt, sir, and such | According to the fooles bolt sir, and such |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.320 | In bolted language. Meal and bran together | In boulted Language: Meale and Bran together |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.152 | And yet to charge thy sulphur with a bolt | And yet to change thy Sulphure with a Boult |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.300 | 'Twas but a bolt of nothing, shot at nothing, | 'Twas but a bolt of nothing, shot at nothing, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.10 | The penitent instrument to pick that bolt, | The penitent Instrument to picke that Bolt, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.93.2 | eagle: he throws a thunderbolt. The Ghosts fall on their knees | Eagle: hee throwes a Thunder-bolt. The Ghostes fall on their knees. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.95 | Accuse the thunderer, whose bolt – you know – | Accuse the Thunderer, whose Bolt (you know) |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.198 | Thou shalt be then freer than a gaoler; no bolts for | Thou shalt be then freer then a Gaoler; no bolts for |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.438 | humours, that bolting-hutch of beastliness, that swollen | Humors, that Boulting-Hutch of Beastlinesse, that swolne |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.69 | to bakers' wives. They have made bolters of them. | to Bakers Wiues, and they haue made Boulters of them. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.120 | Who is to bear me like a thunderbolt | Who is to beare me like a Thunder-bolt, |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.137 | Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem: | Such and so finely boulted didst thou seeme: |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.119 | fool's bolt is soon shot.’ | Fooles Bolt is soone shot. |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.34 | Since which she was removed to Kimbolton, | Since which, she was remou'd to Kymmalton, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.81 | Be ready, gods, with all your thunderbolts, | Be ready Gods with all your Thunder-bolts, |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.63 | lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this unbolted | Lord, if you will giue me leaue, I will tread this vnboulted |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.171 | And in conclusion, to oppose the bolt | And in conclusion, to oppose the bolt |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.5 | Vaunt-curriers of oak-cleaving thunderbolts, | Vaunt-curriors of Oake-cleauing Thunder-bolts, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vii.33 | To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder, | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.22 | hast thumped him with thy bird-bolt under the left | hast thumpt him with thy Birdbolt vnder the left |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.122 | For the blood-boltered Banquo smiles upon me, | For the Blood-bolter'd Banquo smiles vpon me, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.115 | Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt | Thou rather with thy sharpe and sulpherous bolt |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.343 | him to prison. Lay bolts enough upon him. Let him | him to prison: lay bolts enough vpon him: let him |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iv.24 | I'll make a shaft or a bolt on't. 'Slid, 'tis but | Ile make a shaft or a bolt on't, slid, tis but |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.165 | Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell: | Yet markt I where the bolt of Cupid fell. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.39 | at the bird-bolt. I pray you, how many hath he killed and | at the Burbolt. I pray you, how many hath hee kil'd and |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.36 | thunderbolt. | Thunderbolt: |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.46 | With his own bolt; the strong-based promontory | With his owne Bolt: The strong bass'd promontorie |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.53 | I will unbolt to you. | I will vnboult to you. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC prologue.18 | And corresponsive and fulfilling bolts, | And corresponsiue and fulfilling Bolts |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.19 | bolting. | bolting. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.21 | Ay, the bolting; but you must tarry the | I the boulting; but you must tarry the |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.3.1 | He shall unbolt the gates. | He shall vnbolt the Gates. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.87 | and of free disposition, is to take those things for bird-bolts | and of free disposition, is to take those things for Bird-bolts, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.55 | Bolts and shackles! | Boltes and shackles. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.361 | Or Ethiopian's tooth, or the fanned snow that's bolted | Or Ethyopians tooth, or the fan'd snow, that's bolted |