| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.166 | This yellow Iachimo, in an hour, was't not? | This yellow Iachimo in an houre, was't not? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.183 | hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, | hand? a yellow cheeke? a white beard? a decreasing leg? |
| Henry VIII | H8 prologue.16 | In a long motley coat guarded with yellow, | In a long Motley Coate, garded with Yellow, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.117 | The yellow amber. – ‘ Like a flattering glass ’ | The yelow Amber like a flattering glas, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.51 | three studied ere ye'll thrice wink; and how easy it is to | three studied, ere you'll thrice wink, & how easie it is to |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.59 | The dogs did yell; put ‘ L ’ to sore, then sorel jumps from thicket; | The Dogges did yell, put ell to Sore, then Sorell iumps from thicket: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.884 | And lady-smocks all silver-white | And Cuckow-buds of yellow hew: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.885 | And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue | And Ladie-smockes all siluer white, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.7 | As if it felt with Scotland, and yelled out | As if it felt with Scotland, and yell'd out |
| Macbeth | Mac V.iii.23 | Is fallen into the sere, the yellow leaf; | Is falne into the Seare, the yellow Leafe, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.93 | deal with poison. I will possess him with yellowness, for | deale with poyson: I will possesse him with yallownesse, for |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.22 | little yellow beard – a Cain-coloured beard. | little yellow Beard: a Caine colourd Beard. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.89 | yellow. | yellow. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.126 | And sat with me on Neptune's yellow sands | And sat with me on Neptunes yellow sands, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.393 | Turns into yellow gold his salt green streams. | Turnes into yellow gold, his salt greene streames. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.324 | These yellow cowslip cheeks | These yellow Cowslip cheekes |
| Othello | Oth I.i.76 | Do, with like timorous accent and dire yell, | Doe, with like timerous accent, and dire yell, |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.14 | To strew thy green with flowers. The yellows, blues, | to strowe thy greene with Flowers, the yellowes, blewes, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.83 | With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls. | With reckie shankes and yellow chappels sculls: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.52 | windgalls, sped with spavins, rayed with the yellows, | Windegalls, sped with Spauins, raied with the Yellowes, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.375 | Come unto these yellow sands, | Come vnto these yellow sands, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.26 | Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious gold? | Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious Gold? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.34 | This yellow slave | This yellow Slaue, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.125 | Whose proof nor yells of mothers, maids, nor babes, | Whose proofe, nor yels of Mothers, Maides, nor Babes, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.20 | Let us sit down and mark their yellowing noise. | Let vs sit downe, and marke their yelping noyse: |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.112 | And with a green and yellow melancholy, | And with a greene and yellow melancholly, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.148 | Remember who commended thy yellow stockings and wished | Remember who commended thy yellow stockings, and wish'd |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.160 | my yellow stockings of late, she did praise my leg being | my yellow stockings of late, shee did praise my legge being |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.164 | will be strange, stout, in yellow stockings and cross-gartered, | will bee strange, stout, in yellow stockings, and crosse Garter'd, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.192 | yellow stockings, and 'tis a colour she abhors; and cross-gartered, | yellow stockings, and 'tis a colour she abhorres, and crosse garter'd, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.68 | such impossible passages of grossness. He's in yellow | such impossible passages of grossenesse. Hee's in yellow |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.25 | Not black in my mind, though yellow in my | Not blacke in my minde, though yellow in my |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.47 | ‘ Remember who commended thy yellow | Remember who commended thy yellow |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.49 | Thy yellow stockings? | Thy yellow stockings? |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.336 | To put on yellow stockings, and to frown | To put on yellow stockings, and to frowne |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.186 | Her hair is auburn, mine is perfect yellow; | Her haire is Aburne, mine is perfect Yellow; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iv.20 | And I'll clip my yellow locks, an inch below mine ee; | And ile clip my yellow lockes; an inch below mine eie. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.103 | He shows no such soft temper. His head's yellow, | He shewes no such soft temper, his head's yellow, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.106 | No yellow in't, lest she suspect, as he does, | No Yellow in't, least she suspect, as he do's, |