| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.v.1 | No, no, no, your son was misled with a snipped-taffeta | No, no, no, your sonne was misled with a snipt taffata |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.2 | It is a nipping and an eager air. | It is a nipping and an eager ayre. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.109 | omnipotent villain that ever cried ‘ Stand!’ to a true man. | omnipotent Villaine, that euer cryed, Stand, to a true man. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.3 | Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold; | Barren Winter, with his wrathfull nipping Cold; |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.357 | His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, | His Greatnesse is a ripening, nippes his roote, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.ii.19 | When frozen cold hath nipped his careless head. | When frozen cold hath nipt his carelesse head: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.20 | snip and away. These are compliments, these are humours, | snip and away: these are complements, these are humours, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.56 | sweet touch, a quick venue of wit! Snip, snap, quick | sweet tutch, a quicke venewe of wit, snip snap, quick |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.797 | Nip not the gaudy blossoms of your love, | Nip not the gaudie blossomes of your Loue, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.905 | When blood is nipped, and ways be foul, | When blood is nipt, and waies be fowle, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vii.57 | Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums | Haue pluckt my Nipple from his Bonelesse Gummes, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.94 | Nips youth i'th' head, and follies doth enew | Nips youth i'th head, and follies doth emmew |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iv.85 | And bowled to death with turnips. | And bowl'd to death with Turnips. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.7 | Leda. O omnipotent love, how near the god drew to the | Leda: O omnipotent Loue, how nere the God drew to the |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.379 | If I would time expend with such a snipe | IfI would time expend with such Snpe, |
| Pericles | Per V.i.233 | It nips me unto listening, and thick slumber | It nips me vnto listning, and thicke slumber |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.85 | Yet know, my master, God omnipotent, | Yet know, my Master, God Omnipotent, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.31 | When it did taste the wormwood on the nipple | when it did tast the Worme-wood on the nipple |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.90 | Here's snip and nip and cut and slish and slash, | Heers snip, and nip, and cut, and slish and slash, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.70 | These tidings nip me, and I hang the head | These tydings nip me, and I hang the head |