| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.68 | The way it takes, cracking ten thousand curbs | The way it takes: cracking ten thousand Curbes |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.27 | Not separated with the racking clouds, | Not seperated with the racking Clouds, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.ii.26 | Shipwracking storms and direful thunders; | Shipwracking Stormes, and direfull Thunders: |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.103 | cracking the stones of the foresaid prunes – | cracking the stones of the foresaid prewyns. |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.234 | And cracking the strong warrant of an oath, | And cracking the strong Warrant of an Oath, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.19 | with a man for cracking nuts, having no other reason but | with a man for cracking Nuts, hauing no other reason, but |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.171 | O cut my lace, lest my heart, cracking it, | O cut my Lace, least my heart (cracking it) |