| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.46 | First, for his weeping into the needless stream: | First, for his weeping into the needlesse streame; |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.116 | Their needless vouches? Custom calls me to't. | Their needlesse Vouches: Custome calls me too't. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.99 | Myself by with a needle, that I might prick | My selfe by with a Needle, that I might pricke |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.iv.19 | Of space had pointed him sharp as my needle: | Of space, had pointed him sharpe as my Needle: |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.66 | with needless jealousy; | with needlesse ielousy, |
| Henry V | H5 II.i.32 | honestly by the prick of their needles but it will be | honestly by the pricke of their Needles, but it will bee |
| King John | KJ V.ii.157 | Their needles to lances, and their gentle hearts | Their Needl's to Lances, and their gentle hearts |
| King John | KJ V.v.5 | When with a volley of our needless shot, | When with a volley of our needlesse shot, |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.146 | and nobles, needless diffidences, banishment of friends, | |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.92 | In brief, to set the needless process by, | In briefe, to set the needlesse processe by: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.204 | Have with our needles created both one flower, | Haue with our needles, created both one flower, |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.187 | with her needle, an admirable musician! O, she will sing | with her Needle: an admirable Musitian. Oh she will sing |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.IV.23 | Or when she would with sharp needle wound | Or when she would with sharpe needle wound, |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.17 | To thread the postern of a small needle's eye.’ | To thred the posterne of a Needles eye. |
| Richard III | R3 III.ii.87 | Pray God, I say, I prove a needless coward! | Pray God (I say) I proue a needlesse Coward. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.25 | Go ply thy needle, meddle not with her. | Go ply thy Needle, meddle not with her. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.347 | Valance of Venice gold in needlework, | Vallens of Venice gold, in needle worke: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.119 | Marry, sir, with needle and thread. | Marrie sir with needle and thred. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.94 | have need of 'em? They were the most needless | haue need of 'em? They were the most needlesse |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.71 | That matter needless, of importless burden, | That matter needlesse of importlesse burthen |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.79 | As will stop the eye of Helen's needle, for | As will stop the eye of Helens Needle, for |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.35 | At each his needless heavings – such as you | At each his needlesse heauings: such as you |