| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.142 | embellished with rubies, carbuncles, sapphires, declining | embellished with Rubies, Carbuncles, Saphires, declining |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.163 | That, rubbing the poor itch of your opinion | That rubbing the poore Itch of your Opinion, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.60 | Deserved this so dishonoured rub, laid falsely | Deseru'd this so dishonor'd Rub, layd falsely |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iv.11 | There is differency between a grub and a | There is differency between a Grub & a |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iv.12 | butterfly, yet your butterfly was a grub. This Martius is | Butterfly, yet your Butterfly was a Grub: this Martius, is |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.17 | But kiss, one kiss! Rubies unparagoned, | But kisse, one kisse. Rubies vnparagon'd, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.88 | With golden cherubins is fretted. Her andirons – | With golden Cherubins is fretted. Her Andirons |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.65 | To sleep – perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub. | To sleepe, perchance to Dreame; I, there's the rub, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iii.50 | I see a cherub that sees them. But come, for | I see a Cherube that see's him: but come, for |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.282 | Here, Hamlet, take my napkin. Rub thy brows. | Heere's a Napkin, rub thy browes, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.77 | Which gape and rub the elbow at the news | Which gape, and rub the Elbow at the newes |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.188 | But every rub is smoothed on our way. | But euery Rubbe is smoothed on our way. |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.33 | What rub or what impediment there is | What Rub, or what Impediment there is, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.156 | To shrink mine arm up like a withered shrub; | To shrinke mine Arme vp like a wither'd Shrub, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.ii.15 | And kept low shrubs from winter's powerful wind. | And kept low Shrubs from Winters pow'rfull Winde. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.23 | As cherubins, all gilt; the madams too, | As Cherubins, all gilt: the Madams too, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.129 | The least rub in your fortunes, fall away | The least rub in your fortunes, fall away |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.23.1 | I wish it grubbed up now. | I wish it grubb'd vp now. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.109 | What rubbish, and what offal, when it serves | What Rubbish, and what Offall? when it serues |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.260 | Which like dumb mouths do ope their ruby lips, | (Which like dumbe mouthes do ope their Ruby lips, |
| King John | KJ III.iv.128 | Shall blow each dust, each straw, each little rub, | Shall blow each dust, each straw, each little rub |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.152 | Will not be rubbed nor stopped. I'll entreat for thee. | Will not be rub'd nor stopt, Ile entreat for thee. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.140 | I fear too much rubbing. Good night, my good owl. | I feare too much rubbing: good night my good Oule. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.109 | One rubbed his elbow thus, and fleered, and swore | One rub'd his elboe thus, and fleer'd, and swore, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vii.22 | Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubin, horsed | Striding the blast, or Heauens Cherubin, hors'd |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.133 | To leave no rubs nor botches in the work, | To leaue no Rubs nor Botches in the Worke: |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.114 | And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks, | And keepe the naturall Rubie of your Cheekes, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.i.26 | What is it she does now? Look how she rubs her | What is it she do's now? Looke how she rubbes her |
| Macbeth | Mac V.iii.55 | What rhubarb, senna, or what purgative drug | What Rubarb, Cyme, or what Purgatiue drugge |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.101 | Th' impression of keen whips I'd wear as rubies, | Th' impression of keene whips, I'ld weare as Rubies, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.62 | Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins; | Still quiring to the young eyed Cherubins; |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.162 | A kind of boy, a little scrubbed boy | A kinde of boy, a little scrubbed boy, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.261 | For that same scrubbed boy, the doctor's clerk, | For that same scrubbed boy the Doctors Clarke |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.12 | Those be rubies, fairy favours; | Those be Rubies, Fairie fauors, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.ii.46 | Nay, 'a rubs himself with civet; can you smell | Nay a rubs himselfe with Ciuit, can you smell |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.52.1 | Rub him about the temples. | Rub him about the Temples. |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.62 | Patience, thou young and rose-lipped cherubin, | Patience, thou young and Rose-lip'd Cherubin, |
| Othello | Oth V.i.11 | I have rubbed this young quat almost to the sense, | I haue rub'd this yong Quat almost to the sense, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.V.8 | Her inkle, silk, twin with the rubied cherry: | Her Inckle, Silke Twine, with the rubied Cherrie, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.4 | 'Twill make me think the world is full of rubs | 'Twill make me thinke the World is full of Rubs, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.5 | And that my fortune rubs against the bias. | And that my fortune runnes against the Byas. |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.6 | Threw dust and rubbish on King Richard's head. | Threw dust and rubbish on King Richards head. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.60 | Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub, | made by the Ioyner Squirrel or old Grub, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.126 | To grubs and eyeless skulls? As I discern, | To grubs, and eyelesse Sculles? As I discerne, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.152.2 | O, a cherubin | O, a Cherubin |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.140 | And time to speak it in. You rub the sore, | And time to speake it in: you rub the sore, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.18 | Here's neither bush nor shrub, to bear off | Here's neither bush, nor shrub to beare off |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.81 | My bosky acres and my unshrubbed down, | My boskie acres, and my vnshrubd downe, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.64.1 | For all her cherubim look. | For all her Cherubin looke. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.46 | Marcus, we are but shrubs, no cedars we, | Marcus we are but shrubs, no Cedars we, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.198 | O, this is well; he rubs the vein of him. | O this is well, he rubs the veine of him. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.48 | Troilus) So, so, rub on, and kiss the mistress. How | So, so, rub on, and kisse the mistresse; how |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.67 | Fears make devils of cherubins; they never see | Feares make diuels of Cherubins, they neuer see |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iv.32 | Is not more smooth and rubious. Thy small pipe | Is not more smooth, and rubious: thy small pipe |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.115 | Th' art i'the right. (To Malvolio) Go, sir, rub | Th'art i'th right. Goe sir, rub |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.86.1 | Why do you rub my kiss off? | Why doe you rub my kisse off? |