| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.ii.10 | Be bounteous at our meal. Give me thy hand. | Be bounteous at our Meale. Giue me thy hand, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.74 | Unquiet meals make ill digestions. | Vnquiet meales make ill digestions, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.320 | In bolted language. Meal and bran together | In boulted Language: Meale and Bran together |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.iv.14 | Whose hours, whose bed, whose meal and exercise | Whose Houres, whose Bed, whose Meale and Exercise |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vii.24 | As I had made my meal; and parted | As I had made my Meale; and parted |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.27 | Nature hath meal, and bran; contempt, and grace. | "Nature hath Meale, and Bran; Contempt, and Grace. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.91 | making many fish meals, that they fall into a kind of | and making many Fish-Meales, that they fall into a kinde of |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.146 | great meals of beef, and iron and steel; they will eat | great Meales of Beefe, and Iron and Steele; they will eate |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.x.60 | the ten meals I have lost, and I'll defy them all. Wither, | the ten meales I haue lost, and I'de defie them all. Wither |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.284 | To keep with you at meals, comfort your bed, | To keepe with you at Meales, comfort your Bed, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.40 | And but one meal on every day beside – | And but one meale on euery day beside: |
| Macbeth | Mac III.ii.17 | Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep | Ere we will eate our Meale in feare, and sleepe |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.153 | head fill my belly; one fruitful meal would set me to't. | head fill my belly. One fruitful Meale would set mee too't: |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.115.1 | Hath made his meal on thee? | Hath made his meale on thee? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.49 | fear to drink at meals, | feare to drinke at meales, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.41 | in to my table, so many meals? Come, what's | into my Table, so many meales? Come, what's |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.74 | Of one meal lend me. Come before me then, | Of one meale lend me; Come before me then |