| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.240 | Is but a quintain, a mere lifeless block. | Is but a quintine, a meere liuelesse blocke. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.27 | another man's will – 'tis strongly wedged up in a blockhead; | another mans will, 'tis strongly wadg'd vp in a blocke-head: |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.75 | block, hath denied my access to thee. | blocke hath denyed my accesse to thee. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.ii.122 | Some guard these traitors to the block of death, | Some guard these Traitors to the Block of Death, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.64 | I would remove these tedious stumbling-blocks | I would remoue these tedious stumbling blockes, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.127 | Stoop to the block than these knees bow to any | Stoope to the blocke, then these knees bow to any, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.i.35 | You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things! | You Blockes, you stones, you worse then senslesse things: |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.184 | To this great stage of fools. – This's a good block. | To this great stage of Fooles. This a good blocke: |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.181 | On twenty bloody blocks, he'd yield them up, | On twentie bloodie blockes, hee'ld yeeld them vp, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.49 | You, sirrah, provide your block and your axe | You sirrah, prouide your blocke and your Axe |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.35 | Is the axe upon the block, sirrah? | Is the Axe vpon the blocke, sirrah? |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.63 | After him, fellows: bring him to the block. | After him (Fellowes) bring him to the blocke. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.411 | We do condemn thee to the very block | We doe condemne thee to the very Blocke |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.71 | block. | block. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.220 | block! An oak but with one green leaf on it would have | block: an oake but with one greene leafe on it, would haue |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.67 | If silent, why, a block moved with none. | If silent, why a blocke moued with none. |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.89 | The viol once more! How thou stirrest, thou block! | The Violl once more; how thou stirr'st thou blocke? |
| Richard III | R3 III.iv.106 | Come, lead me to the block; bear him my head. | Come, lead me to the Block, beare him my Head, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.42 | What tongueless blocks were they! Would not they speak? | What tongue-lesse Blockes were they, / Would they not speake? |
| Richard III | R3 V.i.28 | – Come lead me, officers, to the block of shame. | Come leade me Officers to the blocke of shame, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.375 | And by device let blockish Ajax draw | And by deuice let blockish Aiax draw |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.v.23 | What a block art thou, that thou canst not! My | What a blocke art thou, that thou canst not? My |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.40.1 | Palamon lies on the block. A great noise within, crying | Lies on the Blocke. A great noise within crying, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.225 | More than the common blocks. Not noted, is't, | More then the common Blocks. Not noted, is't, |