| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iii.39 | The thrifty hire I saved under your father, | The thriftie hire I saued vnder your Father, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.i.15 | And make them dread it, to the doers' thrift. | And make them dread it, to the dooers thrift. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.180 | Thrift, thrift, Horatio. The funeral baked meats | Thrift, thrift Horatio: the Funerall Bakt-meats |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.72 | Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou hear? | Where thrift may follow faining? Dost thou heare, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.193 | Are base respects of thrift, but none of love. | Are base respects of Thrift, but none of Loue. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.121 | And then this ‘ should ’ is like a spendthrift sigh, | |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.176 | For they are thrifty honest men, and such | For they are thrifty honest men, and such |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.109 | Seems to flow from him! How, i'th' name of thrift, | Seemes to flow from him? How, i'th'name of Thrift |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.15 | Spendthrifts, and such that gape for nothing else | Spend thrifts, and such as gape for nothing else, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iv.28 | Thriftless ambition, that wilt raven up | Thriftlesse Ambition, that will rauen vp |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.i.38 | But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines | But like a thrifty goddesse, she determines |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.175 | I have a mind presages me such thrift | I haue a minde presages me such thrift, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.47 | On me, my bargains, and my well-won thrift, | On me, my bargaines, and my well-worne thrift, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.87 | And thrift is blessing if men steal it not. | And thrift is blessing if men steale it not. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.173 | Of an unthrifty knave, and presently | Of an vnthriftie knaue: and presentlie |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.v.53 | A proverb never stale in thrifty mind. | A prouerbe neuer stale in thriftie minde. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.16 | And with an unthrift love did run from Venice | And with an Vnthrift Loue did runne from Venice, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.39 | I am about thrift. Briefly, I do mean to make love to | I am about thrift) briefely: I doe meane to make loue to |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.79 | French thrift, you rogues – myself and skirted page. | French-thrift, you Rogues, my selfe, and skirted Page. |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.121 | To upstart unthrifts? Wherefore was I born? | To vpstart Vnthrifts? Wherefore was I borne? |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.1 | Can no man tell me of my unthrifty son? | Can no man tell of my vnthriftie Sonne? |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.68 | As thriftless sons their scraping fathers' gold. | As thriftlesse Sonnes, their scraping Fathers Gold. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.136 | O much I fear some ill unthrifty thing. | O much I feare some ill vnluckie thing. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.26 | Fie, what a spendthrift is he of his tongue! | Fie, what a spend-thrift is he of his tongue. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.122 | That from my first have been inclined to thrift, | That from my first haue beene inclin'd to thrift, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.313 | thou ever know unthrift that was beloved after his | thou euer know vnthrift, that was beloued after his |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.52 | oblique memorial of cuckolds, a thrifty shoeing-horn | oblique memoriall of Cuckolds, a thrifty shooing-horne |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.ii.39 | What thriftless sighs shall poor Olivia breathe! | What thriftlesse sighes shall poore Oliuia breath? |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.311 | Their own particular thrifts, they would do that | (Their owne particular Thrifts) they would doe that |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.109 | will be born. Our absence makes us unthrifty to our | will be borne: our Absence makes vs vnthriftie to our |