| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.107 | milk. He hath confessed himself to Morgan, whom he | milke, he hath confest himselfe to Morgan whom hee |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.73 | By such poor passion as the maid that milks | By such poore passion, as the Maid that Milkes, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.46 | chopt hands had milked; and I remember the wooing of | chopt hands had milk'd; and I remember the wooing of |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iv.28 | mercy in him than there is milk in a male tiger. That | mercy in him, then there is milke in a male-Tyger, that |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.69 | And curd, like eager droppings into milk, | And curd, like Aygre droppings into Milke, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.476 | Which was declining on the milky head | Which was declining on the Milkie head |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.34 | such a dish of skim milk with so honourable an action! | such a dish of skim'd Milk with so honourable an Action. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.27 | Of thy nativity! I would the milk | Of thy natiuitie: I would the Milke |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.252 | Then will I raise aloft the milk-white rose, | Then will I raise aloft the Milke-white-Rose, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.126 | And let those milk-white messengers of time | And let those milke white messengers of time, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.84 | The vines of France and milk of Burgundy | The Vines of France, and Milke of Burgundie, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.338 | This milky gentleness and course of yours, | This milky gentlenesse, and course of yours |
| King Lear | KL IV.ii.50.2 | Milk-livered man! | Milke-Liuer'd man, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.231 | Honey, and milk, and sugar – there is three. | Hony, and Milke, and Suger: there is three. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.904 | And milk comes frozen home in pail, | And Milke comes frozen home in paile: |
| Macbeth | Mac I.v.15 | It is too full o'the milk of human-kindness | It is too full o'th' Milke of humane kindnesse, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.v.46 | And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, | And take my Milke for Gall, you murth'ring Ministers, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vii.55 | How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me; | How tender 'tis to loue the Babe that milkes me, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.98 | Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell, | Poure the sweet Milke of Concord, into Hell, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.172 | shoulders that a milkmaid, if she be in love, may sigh it | shoulders, that a milke-maid, if she be in loue, may sigh it |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.86 | Who inward searched, have livers white as milk, | Who inward searcht, haue lyuers white as milke, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.36 | Skim milk, and sometimes labour in the quern, | Skim milke, and sometimes labour in the querne, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.167 | Before, milk-white; now purple with love's wound: | Before, milke-white; now purple with loues wound, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.330 | With hands as pale as milk; | With hands as pale as Milke, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.91.1 | Boys, apes, braggarts, Jacks, milksops! | Boyes, apes, braggarts, Iackes, milke-sops. |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.IV.22 | With fingers long, small, white as milk; | With fingers long, small, white as milke, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.326 | A milksop, one that never in his life | A Milke-sop, one that neuer in his life |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.56 | Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy, | Aduersities sweete milke, Philosophie, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.293 | They'll take suggestion as a cat laps milk. | They'l take suggestion, as a Cat laps milke, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.182 | Four milk-white horses, trapped in silver. | Foure Milke-white Horses, trapt in Siluer. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.i.54 | Has friendship such a faint and milky heart | Has friendship such a faint and milkie heart, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.116 | Make soft thy trenchant sword; for those milk-paps | Make soft thy trenchant Sword: for those Milke pappes |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.144 | The milk thou sucked'st from her did turn to marble, | The milke thou suck'st from her did turne to Marble, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.31 | But where the bull and cow are both milk-white, | But where the Bull and Cow are both milk-white, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.156 | think his mother's milk were scarce out of him. | thinke his mothers milke were scarse out of him. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.250 | Even in the milk-white bosom of thy love. | Euen in the milke-white bosome of thy Loue. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.267 | yet 'tis a milkmaid; yet 'tis not a maid, for she hath had | yet 'tis a Milke-maid: yet 'tis not a maid: for shee hath had |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.274 | than a jade. Item: She can milk. Look you, a sweet | then a Iade. Item. She can milke, looke you, a sweet |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.293 | Imprimis: She can milk. | Inprimis she can milke. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.76 | Of his loud infamy; for our milk | Of his lowd infamy: for our milke, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.4 | Been laboured so long with ye, milked unto ye, | bin labourd so long with ye? milkd unto ye, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.99 | The innocent milk in its most innocent mouth – | (The innocent milke in it most innocent mouth) |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.244 | Is there not milking-time, when you are going to bed, or | Is there not milking-time? When you are going to bed? Or |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.447.1 | But milk my ewes, and weep. | But milke my Ewes, and weepe. |