| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xii.3.2 | Swallows have built | Swallowes haue built |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.343 | If they had swallowed poison, 'twould appear | If they had swallow'd poyson, 'twould appeare |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.59 | Proceed by swallowing that. For he believes | Proceed by swallowing that. For he beleeues |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.382.1 | By the queen's dram she swallowed. | By the Queenes Dramme she swallow'd. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.ii.19 | last swallowed. When he needs what you have gleaned, | last swallowed, when he needes what you haue glean'd, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.70 | That, being daily swallowed by men's eyes, | That being dayly swallowed by mens Eyes, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.64 | For fear of swallowing. But with nimble wing | For feare of swallowing: But with nimble wing |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.32 | reward of valour. Do you think me a swallow, an arrow, | reward of Valour. Doe you thinke me a Swallow, an Arrow, |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.56 | When capital crimes, chewed, swallowed, and digested, | When capitall crimes, chew'd, swallow'd, and digested, |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.109 | That shall be swallowed in this controversy. | That shall be swallowed in this Controuersie. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.74 | For swallowing the treasure of the realm. | For swallowing the Treasure of the Realme. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.x.28 | swallow my sword like a great pin, ere thou and I part. | swallow my Sword like a great pin ere thou and I part. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.161 | May that ground gape and swallow me alive, | May that ground gape, and swallow me aliue, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.5 | And half our sailors swallowed in the flood? | And halfe our Saylors swallow'd in the flood? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.25 | Whose envious gulf did swallow up his life. | Whose enuious Gulfe did swallow vp his life: |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.166 | That swallowed so much treasure, and like a glass | That swallowed so much treasure, and like a glasse |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.154 | And, her attendants absent, swallowed fire. | And (her Attendants absent) swallow'd fire. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.60 | Is either to be swallowed of the waves, | Is either to be swallowed of the waues, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.195 | With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news; | With open mouth swallowing a Taylors newes, |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.126 | for sallets, swallows the old rat and the ditch-dog, | for Sallets; swallowes the old Rat, and the ditch-Dogge; |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.13 | note, sometime through the throat as if you swallowed | note, sometime through the throate: if you swallowed |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.41 | honorificabilitudinitatibus. Thou art easier swallowed | honorificabilitudinitatibus: Thou art easier swallowed |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.53 | Confound and swallow navigation up; | Confound and swallow Nauigation vp: |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.228 | with his comfort, swallowed his vows whole, pretending | with his comfort: swallowed his vowes whole, pretending |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.20 | water, for my belly's as cold as if I had swallowed | water: for my bellies as cold as if I had swallow'd |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.57 | That it engluts and swallows other sorrows | That it engluts, snd swallowes other sorrowes, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.457 | Swallow them up. Now, by yond marble heaven, | Swallow them vp. Now by yond Marble Heauen, |
| Pericles | Per II.i.33 | on a-th' land who never leave gaping till they swallowed | on, a'th land, Who neuer leaue gaping, till they swallow'd |
| Pericles | Per II.i.39 | Because he should have swallowed | Because he should haue swallowed |
| Pericles | Per IV.iv.39 | Thetis being proud swallowed some part o'th' earth. | Thetis being prowd, swallowed some part ath'earth: |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.132 | Now swallow down that lie! For Gloucester's death, | Now swallow downe that Lye. For Glousters death, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.298 | Or wallow naked in December snow | Or Wallow naked in December snow |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.66 | As thou dost swallow up this good King's blood | As thou dost swallow vp this good Kings blood, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.127 | And almost shouldered in the swallowing gulf | And almost shouldred in the swallowing Gulfe |
| Richard III | R3 V.ii.23 | True hope is swift and flies with swallow's wings; | True Hope is swift, and flyes with Swallowes wings, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.ii.14 | Earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she; | Earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.12 | It should the good ship so have swallowed and | It should the good Ship so haue swallow'd, and |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.255 | We all were sea-swallowed, though some cast again, | We all were sea-swallow'd, though some cast againe, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.30 | The swallow follows not summer more willing | The Swallow followes not Summer more willing, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.533 | What thou deniest to men. Let prisons swallow 'em, | What thou denyest to men. Let Prisons swallow 'em, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.ii.24 | Makes way and run like swallows o'er the plain. | Makes way, and runnes likes Swallowes ore the plaine |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.239 | I may be plucked into the swallowing womb | I may be pluckt into the swallowing wombe, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.97 | Will in his brinish bowels swallow him. | Will in his brinish bowels swallow him. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.171 | Now to the Goths, as swift as swallow flies, | Now to the Gothes, as swift as Swallow flies, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.190 | Like to the earth swallow her own increase. | Like to the earth swallow her increase. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.11 | Where I may wallow in the lily-beds | Where I may wallow in the Lilly beds |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.185 | And blind oblivion swallowed cities up, | And blinde obliuion swallow'd Cities vp; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iv.34 | swallowed one another. I would laugh at that miracle – | swallowed one another. I would laugh at that miracle---- |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.142 | Swallow their youth. Were we at liberty, | Swallow their youth: were we at liberty, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.90 | the moon with her mainmast, and anon swallowed with | the Moone with her maine Mast, and anon swallowed with |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.119 | That come before the swallow dares, and take | That come before the Swallow dares, and take |