| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.50 | For you a mortal mineral, which, being took, | For you a mortall Minerall, which being tooke, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.i.26 | Among a mineral of metals base, | Among a Minerall of Mettels base |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.74 | Abused her delicate youth with drugs or minerals | Abus'd her delicate Youth, with Drugs or Minerals, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.288 | Doth, like a poisonous mineral, gnaw my inwards, | Doth (like a poysonous Minerall) gnaw my Inwardes: |