| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.183 | We call a nettle but a nettle and | Wee call a Nettle, but a Nettle; / And |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.169 | Of crowflowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples, | Of Crow-flowers, Nettles, Daysies, and long Purples, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.237 | Nettled, and stung with pismires, when I hear | Netled, and stung with Pismires, when I heare |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.11 | nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. | Nettle, Danger; we plucke this Flower, Safety. |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.60 | The strawberry grows underneath the nettle, | The Strawberry growes vnderneath the Nettle, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.169 | Nay, mark how Lewis stamps as he were nettled; | Nay marke how Lewis stampes as he were netled. |
| King Lear | KL IV.iv.4 | With hardokes, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers, | With Hardokes, Hemlocke, Nettles, Cuckoo flowres, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.318 | are gardeners. So that if we will plant nettles or sow | are Gardiners. So that if we will plant Nettels, or sowe |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.18 | Yield stinging nettles to mine enemies; | Yeeld stinging Nettles to mine Enemies; |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.146.1 | He'd sow't with nettle-seed. | Hee'd sow't with Nettle-seed. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.272 | Among the nettles at the elder tree | Among the Nettles at the Elder tree: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.177 | nettle against May. | nettle against May. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.58 | Now to be frampold, now to piss o'th' nettle! | Now to be frampall, now to pisse o'th nettle, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.97 | Than lead itself, stings more than nettles. | Then Lead it selfe, stings more than Nettles; |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.329 | Is goads, thorns, nettles, tails of wasps; | Is Goades, Thornes, Nettles, Tayles of Waspes) |