| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.212 | So many mermaids, tended her i'th' eyes, | So many Mer-maides tended her i'th'eyes, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.214 | A seeming mermaid steers. The silken tackle | A seeming Mer-maide steeres: The Silken Tackle, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.45 | O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note | Oh traine me not sweet Mermaide with thy note, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.172 | I'll stop mine ears against the mermaid's song. | Ile stop mine eares against the Mermaids song. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.176 | And mermaid-like awhile they bore her up; | And Mermaid-like, a while they bore her vp, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.186 | I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; | Ile drowne more Saylers then the Mermaid shall, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.150 | And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back | And heard a Meare-maide on a Dolphins backe, |