| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.18 | Thy knotted and combined locks to part, | Thy knotty and combined locks to part, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.223 | clay-brained guts, thou knotty-pated fool, thou whoreson, | Clay-brayn'd Guts, thou Knotty-pated Foole, thou Horson |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.6 | Have rived the knotty oaks, and I have seen | Haue riu'd the knottie Oakes, and I haue seene |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.295 | And peg thee in his knotty entrails, till | And peg-thee in his knotty entrailes, till |