| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iv.11 | There is differency between a grub and a | There is differency between a Grub & a |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iv.12 | butterfly, yet your butterfly was a grub. This Martius is | Butterfly, yet your Butterfly was a Grub: this Martius, is |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.23.1 | I wish it grubbed up now. | I wish it grubb'd vp now. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.60 | Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub, | made by the Ioyner Squirrel or old Grub, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.126 | To grubs and eyeless skulls? As I discern, | To grubs, and eyelesse Sculles? As I discerne, |