| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.13 | Their slimy jaws; and as I draw them up, | Their slimy iawes: and as I draw them vp, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.50 | Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws | Hath op'd his ponderous and Marble iawes, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.ii.18 | an apple, in the corner of his jaw, first mouthed, to be | in the corner of his iaw, first mouth'd to be |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.77 | Cain's jawbone, that did the first murder! This might be | Caines Iaw-bone, that did the first murther: It might be |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.102 | Turns head against the lion's armed jaws, | Turnes head against the Lyons armed Iawes; |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.105 | Opens his vasty jaws; and on your head | Opens his vastie Iawes: and on your head |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.6 | Clip dead men's graves, and from their misty jaws | Cleape dead-mens graues, and from their misty Iawes, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.396 | The lion doth become his bloody jaws, | The Lyon doth become his bloody iawes, |
| King John | KJ V.ii.116 | Even in the jaws of danger and of death. | Euen in the iawes of danger, and of death: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.148 | The jaws of darkness do devour it up. | The iawes of darkness do deuoure it vp: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.47 | Thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open, | Thus I enforce thy rotten Iawes to open, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.73 | When rank Thersites opes his mastic jaws | When ranke Thersites opes his Masticke iawes, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.351 | I snatched one half out of the jaws of death; | I snatch'd one halfe out of the iawes of death, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.ii.7 | I reck not if the wolves would jaw me, so | I wreake not if the wolves would jaw me, so |