| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iv.32 | When briars shall have leaves as well as thorns | When Briars shall haue leaues as well as thornes, |
| As You Like It | AYL I.iii.12 | how full of briars is this working-day world! | how full of briers is this working day world. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.187 | Usurping ivy, briar, or idle moss, | Vsurping Iuie, Brier, or idle Mosse, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.51.2 | Scratches with briars, | Scratches with Briars, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.30 | From off this briar pluck a white rose with me. | From off this Bryer pluck a white Rose with me. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.3 | Thorough bush, thorough briar, | through bush, through briar, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.87 | Of colour like the red rose on triumphant briar, | Of colour like the red rose on triumphant bryer, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.101 | Thorough bog, thorough bush, thorough brake, thorough briar, | Through bogge, through bush, through brake, through bryer, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.29 | For briars and thorns at their apparel snatch, | For briars and thornes at their apparell snatch, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.443 | Bedabbled with the dew, and torn with briars – | Bedabbled with the dew, and torne with briars, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.384 | Hop as light as bird from briar, | Hop as light as bird from brier, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.180 | Toothed briars, sharp furzes, pricking goss, and thorns, | Tooth'd briars, sharpe firzes, pricking gosse, & thorns, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.421 | The oaks bear mast, the briars scarlet hips; | The Oakes beare Mast, the Briars Scarlet Heps, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.199 | Whose mouth is covered with rude-growing briars, | Whose mouth is couered with Rude growing Briers, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.28 | everything so out of joint that he is a gouty Briareus, | euery thing so out ot ioynt, that hee is a gowtie Briareus, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.197.1 | And leaves him to base briars. | And leaves him to base briers. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.422 | I'll have thy beauty scratched with briars and made | Ile haue thy beauty scratcht with briers & made |