| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.i.40 | put you into a butter-woman's mouth, and buy myself | put you into a Butter-womans mouth, and buy my selfe |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.ii.8 | eat no fish of Fortune's buttering. Prithee, allow the | eate no Fish of Fortunes butt'ring. Prethee alow the |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.94 | the right butter-women's rank to market. | the right Butter-womens ranke to Market. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.61 | countenance! I saw him run after a gilded butterfly, and | countenance. I saw him run after a gilded Butterfly, & |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.95 | Than boys pursuing summer butterflies, | Then Boyes pursuing Summer Butter-flies, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iv.12 | butterfly, yet your butterfly was a grub. This Martius is | Butterfly, yet your Butterfly was a Grub: this Martius, is |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.21 | be prologue to an egg and butter. | be Prologue to an Egge and Butter. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.i.60 | are up already, and call for eggs and butter. They will | are vp already, and call for Egges and Butter. They will |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.117 | butter – pitiful-hearted Titan! – that melted at the sweet | Butter, pittifull hearted Titan that melted at the sweete |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.496.2 | As fat as butter. | As fat as Butter. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.ii.20 | duck. I pressed me none but such toasts-and-butter, | Ducke. I prest me none but such Tostes and Butter, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.ii.59 | hath already made thee butter. But tell me, Jack, whose | hath alreadie made thee Butter: but tell me, Iack, whose |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.121 | horse buttered his hay. | Horse buttered his Hay. |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.13 | At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues | At gilded Butterflies: and heere (poore Rogues) |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.265 | Hang him, mechanical salt-butter rogue! I will | Hang him, mechanicall-salt-butter rogue; I wil |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.287 | rather trust a Fleming with my butter, Parson Hugh the | rather trust a Fleming with my butter, Parson Hugh the |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.7 | ta'en out and buttered, and give them to a dog for a | 'tane out and butter'd, and giue them to a dogge for a |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.106 | heat as butter; a man of continual dissolution and thaw. | heate as butter; a man of continuall dissolution, and thaw: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.167 | And pluck the wings from painted butterflies | And plucke the wings from painted Butterflies, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.100 | Go, sirrah, take them to the buttery, | Go sirra, take them to the Butterie, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.78 | As feel in his own fall; for men, like butterflies, | As feele in his owne fall: for men like butter-flies, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.67 | hand to the buttery bar and let it drink. | hand to'th Buttry barre, and let it drinke. |