| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.133 | These are but wild and whirling words, my lord. | These are but wild and hurling words, my Lord. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.6 | tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your | Tempest, and (as I may say) the Whirle-winde of |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.v.19 | My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel; | My thoughts are whirled like a Potters Wheele, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.66 | To whirl away my sweetest artillery. | To wherle away my sweetest artyllerie: |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.167 | As when a whirlwind takes the summer dust | As when a wherle winde takes the Summer dust, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.130 | When whirlwind quickly turns up younger trees. | When whirle wind quickly turnes vp yonger trees. |
| King John | KJ III.i.330 | They whirl asunder and dismember me. | They whurle a-sunder, and dismember mee. |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.183 | Four fixed, and the fifth did whirl about | Foure fixed, and the fift did whirle about |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.51 | ford and whirlpool, o'er bog and quagmire, that hath | Sword, and Whirle-Poole, o're Bog, and Quagmire, that hath |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.57 | whirlwinds, star-blasting, and taking! Do Poor Tom | Whirle-Windes, Starre-blasting, and taking, do poore Tom |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.360 | And justice always whirls in equal measure. | And Iustice alwaies whirles in equall measure: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.105 | Thus hath the course of justice wheeled about | Thus hath the course of Iustice whirl'd about, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.139 | Confounds thy fame as whirlwinds shake fair buds, | Confounds thy fame, as whirlewinds shake faire budds, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.290 | Thee thither in a whirlwind. If thou wilt, | Thee thither in a whirlewind: if thou wilt, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.159 | To calm this tempest whirling in the court, | To calme this tempest whirling in the Court, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.49 | And whirl along with thee about the globe, | And whirle along with thee about the Globes. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.16 | I am giddy; expectation whirls me round. | I am giddy; expectation whirles me round, |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.374 | the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. | the whirlegigge of time, brings in his reuenges. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.120 | Except mine own name. That some whirlwind bear | Except mine own name: That, some whirle-winde beare |