| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.ii.22 | Pray you, sir, use the carp as you may, for he looks like a | Pray you sir, vse the Carpe as you may, for he lookes like a |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.63 | Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth, | Your bait of falshood, takes this Cape of truth; |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.42 | either the mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter? | either the Mason, the Shipwright, or the Carpenter? |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.51 | shipwright, or a carpenter? | Shipwright, or a Carpenter? |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.63 | Mingled his royalty with capering fools, | Mingled his Royaltie with Carping Fooles, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.90 | This fellow here with envious carping tongue | This Fellow heere with enuious carping tongue, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.90 | He talks of wood. It is some carpenter. | He talkes of wood: It is some Carpenter. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.86 | In fear our motion will be mocked or carped at, | In feare our motion will be mock'd, or carp'd at, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.i.6 | Why, sir, a carpenter. | Why Sir, a Carpenter. |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.198 | Do hourly carp and quarrel, breaking forth | Do hourely Carpe and is Quarrell, breaking forth |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.1.1 | Enter Quince the carpenter, and Snug the joiner, and | Enter Quince the Carpenter, Snug the Ioyner, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.173 | carpenter? Come, in what key shall a man take you to go | Carpenter: Come, in what key shall a man take you to goe |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.71 | Sure, sure, such carping is not commendable. | Sure, sure, such carping is not commendable. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.32 | whole bookful of these quondam carpet-mongers, | whole booke full of these quondam carpet-mongers, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.70 | Traitors enscarped to clog the guiltless keel, | Traitors ensteep'd, to enclogge the guiltlesse Keele, |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.16 | Shall as a carpet hang upon thy grave | shall as a Carpet hang vpon thy graue, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.50 | Upon the grassy carpet of this plain. | Vpon the Grassie Carpet of this Plaine: |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.67 | T' avoid the censures of the carping world. | T'auoid the Censures of the carping World. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.44 | fair within, the Jills fair without, the carpets laid, and | faire within, the Gils faire without, the Carpets laide, and |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.82 | Rich scarf to my proud earth. Why hath thy queen | Rich scarph to my proud earth: why hath thy Queene |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.210 | By putting on the cunning of a carper. | By putting on the cunning of a Carper. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.49 | now, a kiss in fee-farm! Build there, carpenter, the air | now, a kisse in fee-farme? build there Carpenter, the ayre |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.231 | on carpet consideration – but he is a devil in private | on carpet consideration, but he is a diuell in priuate |