| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.183 | All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. | All my sad Captaines, fill our Bowles once more: |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.20 | Like to a bowl upon a subtle ground, | Like to a Bowle vpon a subtle ground |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.i.8 | with your bowl. | with your Bowle. |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.i.49 | at bowls I'll win tonight of him. Come: go. | at Bowles, Ile winne to night of him. Come: go. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.494 | And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven, | And boule the round Naue downe the hill of Heauen, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iv.39 | Let me have such a bowl may hold my thanks, | Let me haue such a Bowle may hold my thankes, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.v.1.4 | bearing great standing bowls for the christening gifts; | bearing great standing Bowles for the Christening Guifts: |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.140.2 | Lucius, a bowl of wine. | Lucius, a bowle of Wine. |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.156 | Speak no more of her. Give me a bowl of wine. | Speak no more of her: Giue me a bowl of wine, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.139 | She's too hard for you at pricks, sir. Challenge her to bowl. | She's too hard for you at pricks, sir challenge her to boule. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.579 | good neighbour, faith, and a very good bowler; | good neighbour insooth, and a verie good Bowler: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.914 | When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, | When roasted Crabs hisse in the bowle, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iv.85 | And bowled to death with turnips. | And bowl'd to death with Turnips. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.47 | And sometime lurk I in a gossip's bowl | And sometime lurke I in a Gossips bole, |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.65 | Here, say we drink this standing-bowl of wine to him. | Heere, say wee drinke this standing boule of wine to him. |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.3 | Madam, we'll play at bowls. | Madame, wee'le play at Bowles. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.63 | Fill me a bowl of wine. Give me a watch. | Fill me a Bowle of Wine: Giue me a Watch, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.72 | So, I am satisfied. Give me a bowl of wine. | So, I am satisfied: Giue me a Bowle of Wine, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.75 | A bowl of wine is brought | |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.174 | Utter your gravity o'er a gossip's bowl, | Vtter your grauitie ore a Gossips bowles |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.v.24 | Well, forward, forward! Thus the bowl should run, | Well, forward, forward, thus the bowle should run, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.147 | 'Tis up. The wind's fair; top the bowling; | tis up, the wind's faire, top the / Bowling, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.328 | for some that know little but bowling it will please | for some, that know little but bowling) it will please |