| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.155 | but unsuitable, just like the brooch and the toothpick, | but vnsuteable, iust like the brooch & the tooth-pick, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.25 | Be brooched with me. If knife, drugs, serpents, have | Be brooch'd with me, if Knife, Drugges, Serpents haue |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.92 | I know him well. He is the brooch indeed | I know him well, he is the Brooch indeed, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.48 | – your brooches, pearls, and ouches – for to | Your Brooches, Pearles, and Owches: For to |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.614 | Saint George's half-cheek in a brooch. | S. Georges halfe cheeke in a brooch. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.615 | Ay, in a brooch of lead. | I, and in a brooch of Lead. |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.66 | Is a strange brooch in this all-hating world. | Is a strange Brooch, in this all-hating world. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.113 | I will hold my peace when Achilles' brooch | I will hold my peace when Achilles Brooch |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.595 | glass, pomander, brooch, table-book, ballad, knife, tape, | Glasse, Pomander, Browch, Table-booke, Ballad, Knife, Tape, |