| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.89 | Approach there! – Ah, you kite! Now, gods and devils! | Approch there: ah you Kite. Now Gods & diuels |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.44 | I'th' city of kites and crows. | I'th City of Kites and Crowes. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.45 | I'th' city of kites and crows? What | I'th City of Kites and Crowes? What |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.576 | I should ha' fatted all the region kites | I should haue fatted all the Region Kites |
| Henry V | H5 II.i.73 | Fetch forth the lazar kite of Cressid's kind, | fetch forth the Lazar Kite of Cressids kinde, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.249 | To guard the chicken from a hungry kite, | To guard the Chicken from a hungry Kyte, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.193 | Although the kite soar with unbloodied beak? | Although the Kyte soare with vnbloudied Beake? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.196 | Is Beaufort termed a kite? Where are his talons? | Is Beauford tearm'd a Kyte? where are his Tallons? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.ii.11 | And made a prey for carrion kites and crows | And made a prey for Carrion Kytes and Crowes |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.84 | And in their steads do ravens, crows, and kites | And in their steeds, do Rauens, Crowes, and Kites |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.259 | Detested kite, thou liest! | Detested Kite, thou lyest. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.72.1 | Shall be the maws of kites. | Shall be the Mawes of Kytes. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.217 | O hell-kite! All? What, all my pretty chickens | Oh Hell-Kite! All? / What, All my pretty Chickens, |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.133 | While kites and buzzards prey at liberty. | Whiles Kites and Buzards play at liberty. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.181 | That is, to watch her, as we watch these kites | That is, to watch her, as we watch these Kites, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.41 | The beaks of ravens, talons of the kites, | The Beakes of Ravens, Tallents of the Kights, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.185 | Some powerful spirit instruct the kites and ravens | Some powerfull Spirit instruct the Kytes and Rauens |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.23 | My traffic is sheets; when the kite builds, look to lesser | My Trafficke is sheetes: when the Kite builds, looke to lesser |