| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.172 | Traduced by odious ballads my maiden's name; | Traduc'd by odious ballads: my maidens name |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iii.47 | though? Courage! As horns are odious, they are necessary. | though? Courage. As hornes are odious, they are necessarie. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.182 | Pulled the poor wretch from her melodious lay | Pul'd the poore wretch from her melodious buy, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.144 | will make the word as odious as the word ‘ occupy ’, | will make the word Captaine odious: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.iv.46 | The sight of me is odious in their eyes; | The sight of me is odious in their eyes: |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.331 | Which, since they are of you, and odious, | Which since they are of you, and odious, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.112 | O, odious is the name! | O, odious is the name. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.i.17 | Melodious birds sings madrigals. | melodious Birds sings Madrigalls: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.i.22 | Melodious birds sing madrigals – | Melodious birds sing Madrigalls: --- |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.75 | Thisbe, the flowers of odious savours sweet – | Thisby, the flowers of odious sauors sweete. |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.179 | You told a lie, an odious damned lie: | You told a Lye an odious damned Lye: |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.31 | The name of help grew odious to repeat. | The name of helpe grewe odious to repeat. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.5 | Would be as heavy to me as odious, but | Would be as heauy to me, as odious, but |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.27 | Whiles hounds and horns and sweet melodious birds | Whiles Hounds and Hornes, and sweet Melodious Birds |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.85 | Where, like a sweet melodious bird, it sung | Where like a sweet mellodius bird it sung, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.197 | than he for a commodious drab. Lechery, lechery, still | then he for a commodious drab: Lechery, lechery, still |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.86 | Ay, and melodious were it, would you sing it. | I: and melodious were it, would you sing it, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.17 | Bird melodious or bird fair, | Bird melodious, or bird faire, |