| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.iii.38 | When it is all to naught, and his quails ever | When it is all to naught: and his Quailes euer |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.85 | But when he meant to quail and shake the orb, | But when he meant to quaile, and shake the Orbe, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.ii.20 | And let not search and inquisition quail | And let not search and inquisition quaile, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.149 | Quail to remember – Give me leave; I faint. | Quaile to remember. Giue me leaue, I faint. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.39 | For, as he writes, there is no quailing now, | For, as he writes, there is no quailing now, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.iii.54 | This may plant courage in their quailing breasts; | This may plant courage in their quailing breasts, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.49 | Of those that live are men enow to quail | Of those that liue, are men inow to quaile, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.279 | Quail, crush, conclude, and quell. | Quaile, crush, conclude, and quell. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.49 | one that loves quails, but he has not so much brain as | one that loues Quailes, but he has not so much Braine as |