| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.253 | O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and | O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.66 | Why, 'tis a cockle or a walnut-shell, | Why 'tis a cockle or a walnut-shell, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.46 | were no stronger than a nutshell and as leaky as an | were no stronger then a Nutt-shell, and as leaky as an |