| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.viii.28 | He has deserved it, were it carbuncled | He has deseru'd it, were it Carbunkled |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.142 | embellished with rubies, carbuncles, sapphires, declining | embellished with Rubies, Carbuncles, Saphires, declining |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iv.57 | A carbuncle entire, as big as thou art, | A Carbuncle intire: as big as thou art |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.189 | And would so, had it been a carbuncle | And would so, had it beene a Carbuncle |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.461 | With eyes like carbuncles, the hellish Pyrrhus | With eyes like Carbuncles, the hellish Pyrrhus |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.219 | A plague-sore, an embossed carbuncle, | A plague sore, or imbossed Carbuncle |