| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.76 | And do not shear the fleeces that I graze. | And do not sheere the Fleeces that I graze: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.37 | So many years ere I shall shear the fleece. | So many yeares, ere I shall sheere the Fleece: |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.91 | Think you I bear the shears of destiny? | Thinke you I beare the Sheeres of destiny? |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.196 | Who, with his shears and measure in his hand, | Who with his Sheeres, and Measure in his hand, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.28 | shears between us. | sheeres betweene vs. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.164 | And being fap, sir, was, as they say, cashiered. | And being fap, sir, was (as they say) casheerd: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.6 | Discard, bully Hercules, cashier. Let them wag; | Discard, (bully Hercules) casheere; let them wag; |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.333 | With shears his thread of silk. | With sheeres, his thred of silke. |
| Othello | Oth I.i.48 | For naught but provender, and when he's old – cashiered! | For naught but Prouender, & when he's old Casheer'd. |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.364 | And thou by that small hurt hath cashiered Cassio. | And thou by that small hurt hath casheer'd Cassio: |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.60 | Thou sheer immaculate and silver fountain | Thou sheere, immaculate, and siluer fountaine, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.22 | for sheer ale, score me up for the lyingest knave in | for sheere Ale, score me vp for the lyingst knaue in |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.61 | How? What does his cashiered | How? What does his casheer'd |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.118 | not this cheat bring out another, and the shearers prove | not this Cheat bring out another, and the sheerers proue |