| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.323 | First pay me for the nursing of thy sons, | First pay me for the Nursing of thy Sonnes, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.325.2 | Nursing of my sons? | Nursing of my Sonnes? |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.179 | By nursing them, my lord. List a brief tale; | By nursing them my Lord. List a breefe tale, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.112 | bastards, he would have paid for the nursing a thousand. | Bastards, he would haue paide for the Nursing a thousand. |
| Pericles | Per III.i.80 | At careful nursing. Go thy ways, good mariner; | At carefull nursing: goe thy wayes good Mariner, |