| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.ii.66 | I quickly were dissolved from my hive | I quickly were dissolued from my hiue |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.78 | We bring it to the hive; and like the bees | wee bring it to the Hiue; And like the Bees, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.v.24 | Are from their hives and houses driven away. | Are from their Hyues and Houses driuen away. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.125 | The commons, like an angry hive of bees | The Commons like an angry Hiue of Bees |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.109 | Drones suck not eagles' blood, but rob beehives. | Drones sucke not Eagles blood, but rob Bee-hiues: |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.74 | Enter Prince Edward in triumph, bearing in his hand his shivered lance, and the body of the King of Bohemia borne before, wrapped in the colours. They run and embrace him | Enter Prince Edward in tryumph, bearing in his hande his shiuered Launce, and the King of Boheme, borne before, wrapt in the Coullours: They runne and imbrace him. |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.51 | Thou'dst shivered like an egg; but thou dost breathe, | Thou'dst shiuer'd like an Egge: but thou do'st breath: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.v.46 | More than the wild-cat. Drones hive not with me; | More then the wilde-cat: drones hiue not with me, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.28 | And shivering shocks | and shiuering shocks |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.95 | Where I have seen them shiver and look pale, | Where I haue seene them shiuer and looke pale, |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.288 | For there it is, cracked in a hundred shivers. | For there it is, crackt in an hundred shiuers. |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.77 | Where shivering cold and sickness pines the clime; | Where shiuering Cold and Sicknesse pines the Clyme: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.87 | Of a cut loaf to steal a shive, we know. | Of a cut loafe to steale a shiue we know: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.81 | When that the general is not like the hive | When that the Generall is not like the Hiue, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.37 | He would pun thee into shivers with his fist, | He would pun thee into shiuers with his fist, |