| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.89 | The glow-worm shows the matin to be near | The Glow-worme showes the Matine to be neere, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.78 | And twenty glow-worms shall our lanterns be, | And twenty glow-wormes shall our Lanthornes bee |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.165 | And light them at the fiery glow-worms' eyes | And light them at the fierie-Glow-wormes eyes, |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.43 | Where now his son's like a glow-worm in the night, | Where now his sonne like a Gloworme in the night, |