| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.364 | unbanded, your sleeve unbuttoned, your shoe untied, | vnbanded, your sleeue vnbutton'd, your shoo vnti'de, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.34 | One whose hard heart is buttoned up with steel, |
On whose hard heart is button'd vp with steele: |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.40 | Too oft before their buttons be disclosed; | Too oft before the buttons be disclos'd, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.229 | On Fortune's cap we are not the very button. | on Fortunes Cap, we are not the very Button. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.3 | sack, and unbuttoning thee after supper, and sleeping | Sacke, and vnbuttoning thee after Supper, and sleeping |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.67 | Wilt thou rob this leathern-jerkin, crystal-button, | Wilt thou rob this Leatherne Ierkin, Christall button, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.32 | Nor from their buttoned tawny leathern belts | Nor from their buttoned tawny leatherne belts, |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.105 | Off, off, you lendings! Come, unbutton here. | Off, off you Lendings: Come, vnbutton heere. |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.307 | Pray you undo this button. Thank you, sir. | Pray you vndo this Button. Thanke you Sir, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.697 | Master, let me take you a buttonhole lower. Do you | Master, let me take you a button hole lower: / Do you |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.ii.63 | carry't, he will carry't. 'Tis in his buttons he will | carry't, he will carry't, 'tis in his buttons, he will |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.23 | your bosom. The very butcher of a silk button. A duellist, | your bosom: the very butcher of a silk button, a Dualist, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.6 | Than her gold buttons on the boughs, or all | Then hir gold Buttons on the bowes, or all |