| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.136 | Methought you saw a serpent. What's in ‘ mother ’ | Me thought you saw a serpent, what's in mother, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.195 | And not a serpent's poison. Say our pleasure, | And not a Serpents poyson. Say our pleasure, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.v.25 | Or murmuring ‘ Where's my serpent of old Nile?’ | Or murmuring, where's my Serpent of old Nyle, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.79 | Turn all to serpents! Call the slave again. | Turne all to Serpents. Call the slaue againe, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.24 | Y'have strange serpents there. | Y'haue strange Serpents there? |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.26 | Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your mud | Your Serpent of Egypt, is bred now of your mud |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.48 | 'Tis a strange serpent. | 'Tis a strange Serpent. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.25 | Be brooched with me. If knife, drugs, serpents, have | Be brooch'd with me, if Knife, Drugges, Serpents haue |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.viii.3 | Not Afric owns a serpent I abhor | Not Affricke ownes a Serpent I abhorre |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.36 | A serpent stung me. So the whole ear of Denmark | A Serpent stung me: so the whole eare of Denmarke, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.39 | The serpent that did sting thy father's life | The Serpent that did sting thy Fathers life, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.47 | Their touch affrights me as a serpent's sting. | Their touch affrights me as a Serpents sting. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.259 | Were there a serpent seen, with forked tongue, | Were there a Serpent seene, with forked Tongue, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.266 | From such fell serpents as false Suffolk is; | From such fell Serpents as false Suffolke is; |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.326 | Their music frightful as the serpent's hiss, | Their Musicke, frightfull as the Serpents hisse, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.15 | Who 'scapes the lurking serpent's mortal sting? | Who scapes the lurking Serpents mortall sting? |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.32 | And therefore think him as a serpent's egg | And therefore thinke him as a Serpents egge, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.99 | Let creeping serpents, hid in hollow banks, | Let creeping serpents hide in hollow banckes, |
| King John | KJ III.i.258 | France, thou mayst hold a serpent by the tongue, | France, thou maist hold a serpent by the tongue, |
| King John | KJ III.iii.61 | He is a very serpent in my way, | He is a very serpent in my way, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.285 | How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is | How sharper then a Serpents tooth it is, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.156 | Most serpent-like, upon the very heart. | Most Serpent-like, vpon the very Heart. |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.85 | This gilded serpent. For your claim, fair sister, | This guilded Serpent: for your claime faire Sisters, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.587 | Thus did he strangle serpents in his manus. | Thus did he strangle Serpents in his Manus: |
| Macbeth | Mac I.v.64 | But be the serpent under't. He that's coming | But be the Serpent vnder't. He that's comming, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.28 | There the grown serpent lies. The worm that's fled | There the growne Serpent lyes, the worme that's fled |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.69 | What, wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice? | What wouldst thou haue a Serpent sting thee twice? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.152 | To pluck this crawling serpent from my breast! | To plucke this crawling serpent from my brest. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.155 | Methought a serpent ate my heart away, | Me-thought a serpent eate my heart away, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.73 | Than thine, thou serpent, never adder stung. | Then thine (thou serpent) neuer Adder stung. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.261 | Or I will shake thee from me like a serpent. | Or I will shake thee from me like a serpent. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.423 | Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue | Now to scape the Serpents tongue, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.90 | As I dare take a serpent by the tongue. | As I d are take a serpent by the tongue. |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.15 | Let heaven requite it with the serpent's curse! | Let Heauen requit it with the Serpents curse, |
| Pericles | Per I.i.133 | And both like serpents are, who, though they feed | And both like Serpents are; who though they feed |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.75 | What Eve, what serpent hath suggested thee | What Eue? what Serpent hath suggested thee, |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.57 | A serpent that will sting thee to the heart. | A Serpent, that will sting thee to the heart. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.73 | O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face! | O Serpent heart, hid with a flowring face. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.80 | Where serpents are. Chain me with roaring bears, | Where Serpents are: chaine me with roaring Beares |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.12 | the serpentine craft of thy caduceus, if thou take not | the Serpentine craft of thy Caduceus, if thou take not |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.86 | leers than I will a serpent when he hisses. He will | leeres, then I will a Serpent when he hisses: he will |