| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.29 | To pluck his indignation on thy head | To plucke his indignation on thy head, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.166 | Lie graveless, till the flies and gnats of Nile | Lye grauelesse, till the Flies and Gnats of Nyle |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.30 | When the sun shines let foolish gnats make sport, | When the sunne shines, let foolish gnats make sport, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.iv.21 | The smallness of a gnat, to air: and then | The smalnesse of a Gnat, to ayre: and then |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.34 | and his moods, and his displeasures, and his indignations, | and his moodes, and his displeasures, and his indignations, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.9 | And whither fly the gnats but to the sun? | And whether flye the Gnats, but to the Sunne? |
| King John | KJ II.i.212 | Their iron indignation 'gainst your walls. | Their Iron indignation 'gainst your walles: |
| King John | KJ IV.i.63 | And quench his fiery indignation | And quench this fierie indignation, |
| King John | KJ IV.i.92 | A grain, a dust, a gnat, a wandering hair, | A graine, a dust, a gnat, a wandering haire, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.103 | They burn in indignation. I repent. | They burn in indignation: I repent: |
| King John | KJ V.vi.37 | Withhold thine indignation, mighty heaven, | With-hold thine indignation, mighty heauen, |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.81 | you to suspend your indignation against my brother till | you to suspend your indignation against my Brother, til |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.164 | To see a king transformed to a gnat! | To see a King transformed to a Gnat? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.123 | Faster than gnats in cobwebs. But her eyes, | Faster then gnats in cobwebs: but her eies, |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.62 | And princes not doing so are like to gnats, | And Princes not doing so, are like to Gnats, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.99 | To scarlet indignation, and bedew | To Scarlet Indignation, and bedew |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.179 | The resignation of thy state and crown | The Resignation of thy State and Crowne |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.219 | And then hurl down their indignation | And then hurle downe their indignation |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.67 | Her waggoner, a small grey-coated gnat, | her Waggoner, a small gray-coated Gnat, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.200 | my nose is in great indignation. | My nose is in great indignation. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.82 | Is the sun dimmed, that gnats do fly in it? | Isthe Sunne dim'd, that Gnats do flie in it? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.137 | What propugnation is in one man's valour | What propugnation is in one mans valour |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.126 | deliver thy indignation to him by word of mouth. | deliuer thy indignation to him by word of mouth. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.240 | Sir, no. His indignation derives itself out of a | Sir, no: his indignation deriues it selfe out of a |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.88.1 | With great creating Nature. | With great creating-Nature. |