| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.258 | kernel out of a pomegranate. You are a vagabond and no | kernell out of a Pomgranat, you are a vagabond, and no |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.v.43 | there can be no kernel in this light nut. The soul of this | there can be no kernell in this light Nut: the soule of this |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.51 | rode like a kern of Ireland, your French hose off, and in | rode like a Kerne of Ireland, your French Hose off, and in |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.310 | Th' uncivil kerns of Ireland are in arms | Th'vnciuill Kernes of Ireland are in Armes, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.361 | Oppose himself against a troop of kerns, | Oppose himselfe against a Troupe of Kernes, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.367 | Full often, like a shag-haired crafty kern, | Full often, like a shag-hayr'd craftie Kerne, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ix.26 | Of gallowglasses and stout kerns | Of Gallow-glasses and stout Kernes, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.ii.13 | Of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied, | Of Kernes and Gallowgrosses is supply'd, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.ii.30 | Compelled these skipping kerns to trust their heels | Compell'd these skipping Kernes to trust their heeles, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.27 | I cannot strike at wretched kerns, whose arms | I cannot strike at wretched Kernes, whose armes |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.156 | We must supplant those rough rug-headed kerns | We must supplant those rough rug-headed Kernes, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.249 | As hazel-nuts and sweeter than the kernels. | As hazle nuts, and sweeter then the kernels: |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.94 | And sowing the kernels of it in the sea, bring | And sowing the kernels of it in the Sea, bring |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.101 | were as good crack a fusty nut with no kernel. | were as good cracke a fustie nut with no kernell. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.159 | How like, methought, I then was to this kernel, | How like (me thought) I then was to this Kernell, |