| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.ii.23 | Tuesday, a morris for May-day, as the nail to his hole, | tuesday, a Morris for May-day, as the naile to his hole, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.ii.29 | to pare her nails now. Wherein have you played the | to paire her nailes now. Wherein haue you played the |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xii.39.1 | With her prepared nails. | With her prepared nailes. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.223 | I'll never see't! For I am sure my nails | Ile neuer see't? for I am sure mine Nailes |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.147 | And shining morning face, creeping like snail | And shining morning face, creeping like snaile |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.46 | sight; I had as lief be wooed of a snail. | sight, I had as liefe be woo'd of a Snaile. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.47 | Of a snail? | Of a Snaile? |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.48 | Ay, of a snail: for though he comes slowly, he | I, of a Snaile: for though he comes slowly, hee |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.203 | Dromio, thou Dromio, thou snail, thou slug, thou sot. | Dromio, thou Dromio, thou snaile, thou slug, thou sot. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.71 | Some devils ask but the parings of one's nail, | Some diuels aske but the parings of ones naile, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.102 | But with these nails I'll pluck out these false eyes | But with these nailes, Ile plucke out these false eyes, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vii.54 | One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one nail; | One fire driues out one fire; one Naile, one Naile; |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.26 | Which fourteen hundred years ago were nailed | Which fourteene hundred yeares ago were nail'd |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.356 | as they buy hob-nails, by the hundreds. | as they buy Hob-nayles, by the Hundreds. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iii.120 | As nail in door! The things I speak are just. | As naile in doore. The things I speake, are iust. |
| Henry V | H5 III.iv.14 | Les ongles? Nous les appelons de nailès. | Le ongles, les appellons de Nayles. |
| Henry V | H5 III.iv.15 | De nailès. Écoutez: dites-moi si je parle | De Nayles escoute: dites moy, si ie parle |
| Henry V | H5 III.iv.16 | bien – de hand, de fingres, et de nailès. | bien: de Hand, de Fingres, e de Nayles. |
| Henry V | H5 III.iv.26 | fingre, de nailès, d'arma, de bilbow. | Fingre, de Nayles, d' Arma, de Bilbow. |
| Henry V | H5 III.iv.42 | De nailès, madame. | De Nayles, Madame. |
| Henry V | H5 III.iv.43 | De nailès, de arm, de ilbow – | De Nayles, de Arme, de Ilbow. |
| Henry V | H5 III.iv.54 | ensemble: d'hand, de fingre, de nailès, d'arm, d'elbow, de | ensembe, d' Hand, de Fingre, de Nayles, d' Arme, d' Elbow, de |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iv.70 | everyone may pare his nails with a wooden dagger; and | euerie one may payre his nayles with a woodden dagger, and |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.45 | And with my nails digged stones out of the ground | And with my nayles digg'd stones out of the ground, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.102 | Ay, and the very parings of our nails | I, and the very parings of our Nayles |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.139 | Could I come near your beauty with my nails, | Could I come neere your Beautie with my Nayles, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.x.38 | men, and if I do not leave you all as dead as a door-nail, I | men, and if I doe not leaue you all as dead as a doore naile, I |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.x.57 | mayst be turned to hobnails. | mayst be turn'd to Hobnailes. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.3 | What time the shepherd, blowing of his nails, | What time the Shepheard blowing of his nailes, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.138 | But I will make you shrink your snaily horns. | But I will make you shrinke your snailie hornes, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.304 | When she shall hear this of thee, with her nails | When she shall heare this of thee, with her nailes |
| King Lear | KL I.v.27 | Nor I neither. But I can tell why a snail has a house. | Nor I neither; but I can tell why a Snaile ha's a house. |
| King Lear | KL II.iii.16 | Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary; | Pins, Wodden-prickes, Nayles, Sprigs of Rosemarie: |
| King Lear | KL III.vii.55 | Because I would not see thy cruel nails | Because I would not see thy cruell Nailes |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.314 | Than are the tender horns of cockled snails. | Then are the tender hornes of Cockled Snayles. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.902 | And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, | And Dicke the Sphepheard blowes his naile; |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.v.45 | Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day | Snaile-slow in profit, but he sleepes by day |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.23 | Worm nor snail, do no offence. | Worme nor Snayle doe no offence. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.298 | But that my nails can reach unto thine eyes. | But that my nailes can reach vnto thine eyes. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.ii.36 | that plays the lion pare his nails, for they shall hang out | that playes the Lion, paire his nailes, for they shall hang out |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.19 | Unlikely wonders – how these vain weak nails | Vnlikely wonders; how these vaine weake nailes |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.126 | These nails should rent that beauty from my cheeks. | These Nailes should rent that beauty from my Cheekes. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iii.53 | Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary. | Delay leds impotent and Snaile-pac'd Beggery: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.232 | Till that my nails were anchored in thine eyes; | Till that my Nayles were anchor'd in thine eyes: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.107 | great, Hortensio, but we may blow our nails together, | great Hortensio, but we may blow our nails together, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.107 | Thou yard, three-quarters, half-yard, quarter, nail, | Thou yard three quarters, halfe yard, quarter, naile, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.165 | And I with my long nails will dig thee pignuts, | and I with my long nayles will digge thee pig-nuts; |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.61 | Where thou mayst knock a nail into his head. | Where thou maist knocke a naile into his head. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.104 | was mouldy ere your grandsires had nails on their toes | was mouldy ere their Grandsires had nails on their toes, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.46 | It were no match, your nail against his horn. | It were no match, your naile against his horne: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.v.18 | And bid the snail-paced Ajax arm for shame. – | And bid the snaile-pac'd Aiax arme for shame; |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.128 | Like a mad lad – ‘ Pare thy nails, dad? | Like a mad lad, paire thy nayles dad, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.191 | Or as one nail by strength drives out another, | Or as one naile, by strength driues out another. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.269 | And as I have a soul, I'll nail thy life to't. | And as I have a soule, Ile naile thy life too't. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.42 | Else wish we to be snails. You know my prize | Else wish we to be Snayles; you know my prize |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.102 | The very mould and frame of hand, nail, finger. | The very Mold, and frame of Hand, Nayle, Finger.) |