| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.22 | Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain, | Vpon the slime and Ooze scatters his graine, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.111 | No, sir, 'tis in grain. Noah's | No sir, 'tis in graine, Noahs |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.312 | Though now this grained face of mine be hid | Though now this grained face of mine be hid |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.79 | crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to | cramm'd with Graine: Make Edicts for Vsurie, to |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.194 | Below their cobbled shoes. They say there's grain enough! | Below their cobled Shooes. They say ther's grain enough? |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.232 | Than what you should, made you against the grain | Then what you should, made you against the graine |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.90 | But with a grain a day, I would not buy | But with a graine a day, I would not buy |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.111 | My grained ash an hundred times hath broke | My grained Ash an hundred times hath broke, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.i.27 | For one poor grain or two, to leave unburnt | For one poore graine or two, to leaue vnburnt |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.i.29 | For one poor grain or two! | For one poore graine or two? |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.i.31 | And this brave fellow too – we are the grains. | And this braue Fellow too: we are the Graines, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.91 | And there I see such black and grained spots | And there I see such blacke and grained spots, |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.138 | Even to the utmost grain; that you shall read | Euen to the vtmost Graine: that you shall reade |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.155 | We see each grain of gravel, I do know | Wee see each graine of grauell; I doe know |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.30 | Nor hang their staves of grained Scottish ash | Nor hang their staues of grayned Scottish ash, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.56 | Where neither herb or fruitful grain is had, | Where neither hearb or frutfull graine is had, |
| King John | KJ IV.i.92 | A grain, a dust, a gnat, a wandering hair, | A graine, a dust, a gnat, a wandering haire, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.58 | And say which grain will grow and which will not, | And say, which Graine will grow, and which will not, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.20 | For thou exists on many a thousand grains | For thou exists on manie a thousand graines |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.116 | grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall | graines of wheate hid in two bushels of chaffe: you shall |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.87 | beard, your orange-tawny beard, your purple-in-grain | beard, your orange tawnie beard, your purple in graine |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.155 | Rot half a grain a day! He lies to th' heart. | Rot halfe a graine a day: he lyes to'th'heart, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.8 | Infect the sound pine, and divert his grain | Infect the sound Pine, and diuerts his Graine |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.197 | Knows almost every grain of Pluto's gold, | Knowes almost euery graine of Plutoes gold; |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.227 | 'Tis in grain, sir, 'twill endure wind and weather. | 'Tis in graine sir, 'twill endure winde and weather. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.18 | As to us death is certain; a grain of honour | As to us death is certaine: A graine of honour |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.156 | There's not a grain of it the face to sweeten | There's not a graine of it, the face to sweeten |