| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.147 | And shining morning face, creeping like snail | And shining morning face, creeping like snaile |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.46 | sight; I had as lief be wooed of a snail. | sight, I had as liefe be woo'd of a Snaile. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.47 | Of a snail? | Of a Snaile? |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.48 | Ay, of a snail: for though he comes slowly, he | I, of a Snaile: for though he comes slowly, hee |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.203 | Dromio, thou Dromio, thou snail, thou slug, thou sot. | Dromio, thou Dromio, thou snaile, thou slug, thou sot. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.138 | But I will make you shrink your snaily horns. | But I will make you shrinke your snailie hornes, |
| King Lear | KL I.v.27 | Nor I neither. But I can tell why a snail has a house. | Nor I neither; but I can tell why a Snaile ha's a house. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.314 | Than are the tender horns of cockled snails. | Then are the tender hornes of Cockled Snayles. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.v.45 | Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day | Snaile-slow in profit, but he sleepes by day |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.23 | Worm nor snail, do no offence. | Worme nor Snayle doe no offence. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iii.53 | Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary. | Delay leds impotent and Snaile-pac'd Beggery: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.v.18 | And bid the snail-paced Ajax arm for shame. – | And bid the snaile-pac'd Aiax arme for shame; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.42 | Else wish we to be snails. You know my prize | Else wish we to be Snayles; you know my prize |