| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.91 | That it might go on wheels! | that it might go on wheeles. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.75 | To penetrative shame, whilst the wheeled seat | To penetratiue shame; whil'st the wheel'd seate |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.44 | That the false housewife Fortune break her wheel, | That the false Huswife Fortune, breake her Wheele, |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.31 | from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be | from her wheele, that her gifts may henceforth bee |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.154 | She had transformed me to a curtal dog, and made me turn i'the wheel. | she had transform'd me to a Curtull dog, & made me turne i'th wheele. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.19 | Held me in chase, that I was forced to wheel | Held me in chace, that I was forc'd to wheele |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.2 | Death on the wheel or at wild horses' heels, | Death on the Wheele, or at wilde Horses heeles, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.190 | Of Phoebus' wheel; and might so safely, had it | Of Phobus Wheele; and might so safely, had it |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.493 | Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, | Breake all the Spokes and Fallies from her wheele, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.17 | What's near it with it; or 'tis a massy wheel | What's neere it, with it. It is a massie wheele |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.173 | him a-down-a.’ O, how the wheel becomes it! It is the | him a-downe-a. Oh, how the wheele becomes it? It is the |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.126 | Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree, | Or a dry Wheele grate on the Axle-tree, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.250 | Would not this nave of a wheel have his | Would not this Naue of a Wheele haue his |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.26 | And giddy Fortune's furious fickle wheel, | and giddie Fortunes furious fickle Wheele, |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.32 | with a wheel, to signify to you, which is the moral of it, | with a Wheele, to signifie to you, which is the Morall of it, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.v.19 | My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel; | My thoughts are whirled like a Potters Wheele, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.13 | That erst did follow thy proud chariot wheels | That erst did follow thy prowd Chariot-Wheeles, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iii.48 | My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel. | My minde exceedes the compasse of her Wheele. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.i.34 | To grace in captive bonds his chariot wheels? | To grace in Captiue bonds his Chariot Wheeles? |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.171 | Fortune, good night: smile once more; turn thy wheel. | Fortune goodnight, / Smile once more, turne thy wheele. |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.69 | stinking. Let go thy hold when a great wheel runs down | stinking; let go thy hold, when a great wheele runs downe |
| King Lear | KL IV.vii.47 | Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears | Vpon a wheele of fire, that mine owne teares |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.172 | The wheel is come full circle; I am here. | The Wheele is come full circle, I am heere. |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.41 | How now, noble Pompey? What, at the wheels of | How now noble Pompey? What, at the wheels of |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iii.26 | Before the wheels of Phoebus, round about | Before the wheeles of Phoebus, round about |
| Othello | Oth I.i.137 | In an extravagant and wheeling stranger | In an extrauagant, and wheeling Stranger, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.87.1 | Enwheel thee round. | Enwheele thee round. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.105 | Thus hath the course of justice wheeled about | Thus hath the course of Iustice whirl'd about, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.188 | The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night, | The gray ey'd morne smiles on the frowning night. Checkring the Easterne Cloudes with streaks of light: And fleckled darknesse like a drunkard reeles. From forth daies path. and Titans burning wheeles: Now ere the Sun aduance his burning eye. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.191 | From forth day's pathway made by Titan's wheels. | From forth dayes pathway, made by Titans wheeles. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.1 | Now, ere the sun advance his burning eye | The gray ey'd morne smiles on the frowning night, / Checkring the Easterne Cloudes with streaks of light: / And fleckled darknesse like a drunkard reeles, / From forth daies path, and Titans burning wheeles: / Now ere the Sun aduance his burning eye, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.281 | As fast as millwheels strike. Then was this island – | As fast as Mill-wheeles strike: Then was this Island |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.47 | Stab them, or tear them on thy chariot wheels, | Stab them, or teare them on thy Chariot wheeles, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.54 | I will dismount, and by thy waggon wheel | I will dismount, and by the Waggon wheele, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.vii.2 | Mark what I say. Attend me where I wheel; | Marke what I say; attend me where I wheele: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.307 | Then may I set the world on wheels, when she | Then may I set the world on wheeles, when she |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.174 | What wheels? Racks? Fires? What flaying? Boiling | What Wheeles? Racks? Fires? What flaying? boyling? |