| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.126 | Runs his erring pilgrimage, | runs his erring pilgrimage, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.203 | With tokens thus, and thus: averring notes | With Tokens thus, and thus: auerring notes |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.155 | Th' extravagant and erring spirit hies | Th'extrauagant, and erring Spirit, hyes |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.125 | the face of the earth, then am I a shotten herring. There | the face of the earth, then am I a shotten Herring: there |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.32 | Or rather of stealing a cade of herrings. | Or rather of stealing a Cade of Herrings. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.44 | Inferring arguments of mighty force. | Inferring arguments of mighty force: |
| King Lear | KL I.i.40 | Conferring them on younger strengths, while we | Conferring them on yonger strengths, while we |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.31 | white herring. Croak not, black angel! I have no food for | |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.iii.11 | By gar, de herring is no dead so as I vill kill him. | By gar, de herring is no dead, so as I vill kill him: |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.185 | To you, preferring you before her father, | To you, preferring you before her Father: |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.350 | canst. If sanctimony and a frail vow betwixt an erring | canst: If Sanctimonie, and a fraile vow, betwixt an erring |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.225 | And yet, how nature erring from itself – | And yet how Nature erring from it selfe. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.37 | Without his roe, like a dried herring. O flesh, | Without his Roe, like a dryed Hering. O flesh, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.101 | They sit conferring by the parlour fire. | They sit conferring by the Parler fire. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.58 | a lizard, an owl, a puttock, or a herring without a roe, I | a Lizard, an Owle, a Puttocke, or a Herring without a Roe, I |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.116 | pickle-herring! (To Feste) How now, sot! | pickle herring: How now Sot. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.33 | like husbands as pilchers are to herrings; the husband's | like husbands, as Pilchers are to Herrings, the Husbands |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.211 | If I can check my erring love, I will; | If I can checke my erring loue, I will, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.114 | That never-erring arbitrator, tell us | That never erring Arbitratour, tell us |