| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vii.34 | As is the osprey to the fish, who takes it | As is the Aspray to the Fish, who takes it |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.309 | Not? To dispraise me, and call me | Not to disprayse me? and call me |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.314 | I dispraised him before the wicked that the wicked | I disprays'd him before the Wicked, that the Wicked |
| Henry V | H5 III.v.5 | O Dieu vivant! Shall a few sprays of us, | O Dieu viuant: Shall a few Sprayes of vs, |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.198 | her dispraise those parts in me that you love with | to her disprayse those parts in me, that you loue with |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iii.45 | Thus droops this lofty pine and hangs his sprays; | Thus droupes this loftie Pyne, & hangs his sprayes, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.50 | From whence that tender spray did sweetly spring: | From whence that tender spray did sweetly spring, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.34 | Cut off the heads of too fast-growing sprays | Cut off the heads of too fast growing sprayes, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.138 | Soon as they move, as ospreys do the fish, | Soone as they mooves as Asprayes doe the fish, |