| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.44 | The mouse ne'er shunned the cat as they did budge | The Mouse ne're shunn'd the Cat, as they did budge |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.10.2 | Not a mouse stirring. | Not a Mouse stirring. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.247 | The Mousetrap. Marry, how? Tropically. This | The Mouse-trap: Marry how? Tropically: This |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.184 | Pinch wanton on your cheek, call you his mouse, | Pinch Wanton on your cheeke, call you his Mouse, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.158 | wrathful dove or most magnanimous mouse. Prick the | wrathfull Doue, or most magnanimous Mouse. Pricke the |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.172 | Playing the mouse in absence of the cat, | Playing the Mouse in absence of the Cat, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.89 | mouse! – Peace, peace! this piece of toasted cheese will | Mouse: peace, peace, this peece of toasted Cheese will |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.19 | What's your dark meaning, mouse, of this light word? | What's your darke meaning mouse, of this light word? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.216 | The smallest monstrous mouse that creeps on floor – | The smallest monstrous mouse that creepes on floore) |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.261 | Well moused, Lion! | Wel mouz'd Lion. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.377 | Now are frolic. Not a mouse | Now are frollicke; not a Mouse |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.III.6 | | Now coutches from the Mouses hole; |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.78 | I never killed a mouse, nor hurt a fly. | I neuer killd a Mouse, nor hurt a Fly: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.40 | Tut, dun's the mouse, the constable's own word! | Tut, duns the Mouse, the Constables owne word, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.100 | houses! Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a cat, to scratch | houses. What, a Dog, a Rat, a Mouse, a Cat to scratch |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.31 | And little mouse, every unworthy thing, | And little Mouse, euery vnworthy thing |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iv.11 | Ay, you have been a mouse-hunt in your time. | I you haue bin a Mouse-hunt in your time, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iv.10 | rascals – that stale old mouse-eaten dry cheese, Nestor, | rascals; that stole old Mouse-eaten dry cheese, Nestor: |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.58 | mouse of virtue, answer me. | Mouse of vertue answer mee. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.18 | only to exasperate you, to awake your dormouse valour, | onely to exasperate you, to awake your dormouse valour, |