| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iii.27 | This is no place, this house is but a butchery; | This is no place, this house is but a butcherie; |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.14 | Should be called tyrants, butchers, murderers! | Should be called tyrants, butchers, murtherers. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ix.87 | Were he the butcher of my son, he should | Were he the Butcher of my Sonne, he should |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.96.1 | Or butchers killing flies. | Or Butchers killing Flyes. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.98 | The lamb entreats the butcher. Where's thy knife? | The Lambe entreats the Butcher. Wher's thy knife? |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.13 | And furious close of civil butchery, | And furious cloze of ciuill Butchery, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.42 | A thousand of his people butchered, | And a thousand of his people butchered: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.91 | thou deny it? Did not goodwife Keech the butcher's | yu deny it? Did not goodwife Keech the Butchers |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.141 | on like a butcher, and sit like a jackanapes, never off. | on like a Butcher, and sit like a Iack an Apes, neuer off. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.210 | And as the butcher takes away the calf, | And as the Butcher takes away the Calfe, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.189 | And sees fast by a butcher with an axe, | And sees fast-by, a Butcher with an Axe, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.195 | Are you the butcher, Suffolk? Where's your knife? | Are you the Butcher, Suffolk? where's your Knife? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.25 | And Dick the butcher. | And Dicke the Butcher. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.31.1 | Drums. Enter Jack Cade, Dick the butcher, Smith | Drumme. Enter Cade, Dicke Butcher, Smith |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.iii.1 | Where's Dick, the butcher of Ashford? | Where's Dicke, the Butcher of Ashford? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vii.49 | that am a butcher. | that am a butcher. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.95 | Are you there, butcher? O, I cannot speak! | Are you there Butcher? O, I cannot speake. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.89 | What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly, | What Stragems? how fell? how Butcherly? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.61 | Butchers and villains! Bloody cannibals! | Butchers and Villaines, bloudy Caniballes, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.63 | You have no children, butchers; if you had, | You haue no children (Butchers) if you had, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.77 | What! Wilt thou not? Where is that devil's butcher Richard? | What wilt yu not? Where is that diuels butcher Richard? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.9 | And next his throat unto the butcher's knife. | And next his Throate, vnto the Butchers Knife. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.120 | This butcher's cur is venom-mouthed, and I | This Butchers Curre is venom'd-mouth'd, and I |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.166 | Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius. | Let's be Sacrificers, but not Butchers Caius: |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.255 | That I am meek and gentle with these butchers. | That I am meeke and gentle with these Butchers. |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.259 | Than to be butcher of an innocent child. | Then to be butcher of an innocent childe. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.255 | Bleat softly then. The butcher hears you cry. | Bleat softly then, the Butcher heares you cry. |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.108 | Of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen – | Of this dead Butcher, and his Fiend-like Queene; |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.5 | butcher's offal? And to be thrown in the Thames? Well, | butchers Offall? and to be throwne in the Thames? Wel, |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.3 | To stir against the butchers of his life. | To stirre against the Butchers of his life. |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.32 | Teaching stern murder how to butcher thee. | Teaching sterne murther how to butcher thee: |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.48 | That it may enter butcher Mowbray's breast! | That it may enter butcher Mowbrayes brest: |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.54 | Behold this pattern of thy butcheries. | Behold this patterne of thy Butcheries. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.67 | Which his hell-governed arm hath butchered! | Which his Hell-gouern'd arme hath butchered. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.100 | That never dream'st on aught but butcheries. | That neuer dream'st on ought but Butcheries: |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.275 | And shamefully my hopes by you are butchered. | And shamefully my hopes (by you) are butcher'd. |
| Richard III | R3 III.iv.90 | Today at Pomfret bloodily were butchered, | To day at Pomfret bloodily were butcher'd, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iii.5 | To do this piece of ruthless butchery, | To do this peece of ruthfull Butchery, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.393 | The parents live whose children thou hast butchered, | The Parents liue, whose Children thou hast butcher'd, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.123 | Of butchered princes fight in thy behalf | For the wronged Soules |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.124 | King Henry's issue, Richmond, comforts thee. | Of butcher'd Princes, fight in thy behalfe: |
| Richard III | R3 V.v.26 | The son, compelled, been butcher to the sire: | The Sonne compell'd, beene Butcher to the Sire; |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.23 | your bosom. The very butcher of a silk button. A duellist, | your bosom: the very butcher of a silk button, a Dualist, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.55 | Have by my means been butchered wrongfully. | Haue by my meanes beene butcher'd wrongfully? |