| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.ii.16 | It is like a barber's chair that fits all buttocks: the | It is like a Barbers chaire that fits all buttockes, the pin |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.229 | Being barbered ten times o'er, goes to the feast, | Being barber'd ten times o're, goes to the Feast; |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.497 | It shall to the barber's, with your beard. – | It shall to'th Barbars, with your beard. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.24 | keep it still at a face-royal, for a barber shall never earn | keepe it still at a Face-Royall, for a Barber shall neuer earne |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.30 | barber-monger! Draw! | Barber-monger, draw. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.319 | Stand like the forfeits in a barber's shop, | Stand like the forfeites in a Barbers shop, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.23 | Cobweb to scratch. I must to the barber's, Monsieur, | Cobweb to scratch. I must to the Barbers Mounsieur, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.ii.40 | Hath any man seen him at the barber's? | Hath any man seene him at the Barbers? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.ii.41 | No, but the barber's man hath been seen with | No, but the Barbers man hath beene seen with |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.91 | Like to a censer in a barber's shop. | Like to a Censor in a barbers shoppe: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.53 | Why mine own barber is unblest, with him | Why mine owne Barber is unblest, with him |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.26 | And little Luce with the white legs, and bouncing Barbary. | And little Luce with the white legs, and bouncing Barbery. |