| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.ii.55 | I play the noble housewife with the time, | I play the noble huswife with the time, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.73 | loose-wived, so it is a deadly sorrow to behold a foul | loose-Wiu'd, so it is a deadly sorrow, to beholde a foule |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.44 | That the false housewife Fortune break her wheel, | That the false Huswife Fortune, breake her Wheele, |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.30 | Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune | Let vs sit and mocke the good houswife Fortune |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.28 | She has a housewife's hand – but that's no matter. | She has a huswiues hand, but that's no matter: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.121 | I'll knock elsewhere to see if they'll disdain me. | Ile knocke else-where, to see if they'll disdaine me. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.7 | Or if you like elsewhere, do it by stealth – | Or if you like else-where doe it by stealth, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.1.2 | Martius. They set them down on two low stools and sew | Martius: They set them downe on two lowe stooles and sowe. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.53 | What are you sewing here? A fine spot, in good faith. | What are you sowing heere? A fine spotte in good faith. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.71 | play the idle housewife with me this afternoon. | play the idle Huswife with me this afternoone. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.135 | There is a world elsewhere. | There is a world elsewhere. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.ii.78.1 | A franklin's housewife. | A Franklins Huswife. |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.45.1 | For you must be our housewife. | For you must be our Huswife. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.77 | My lord, as I was sewing in my closet, | My Lord, as I was sowing in my Chamber, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.54 | Yea, and elsewhere, so far as my coin would | Yea and elsewhere, so farre as my Coine would |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.113 | lead this life long, I'll sew nether-stocks, and mend | leade this life long, Ile sowe nether stockes, and mend |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.306 | overscutched housewives that he heard the carmen | |
| Henry V | H5 II.iii.58 | Let housewifery appear. Keep close, I thee command. | Let Huswiferie appeare: keepe close, I thee command. |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.76 | Doth Fortune play the housewife with me now? | Doeth fortune play the huswife with me now? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.30 | Or else, when thou didst keep my lambs a-field, | Or else,when thou didst keepe my Lambes a-field, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.58 | And leave your brothers to go speed elsewhere. | And leaue your Brothers to goe speede elsewhere. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.24 | Your graces find me here part of a housewife – | Your Graces find me heere part of a Houswife, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.79 | Yet seeks elsewhere: and basest theft is that | Yet seekes elsewhere and basest theft is that, |
| King Lear | KL IV.i.55 | Both stile and gate, horse-way and footpath, Poor | Both style, and gate; Horseway, and foot-path: poore |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vii.1.1 | Hautboys. Torches. Enter a Sewer and divers Servants | Ho-boyes. Torches. Enter a Sewer, and diuers Seruants |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.38 | humidity, this gross watery pumpion. We'll teach him | humidity, this grosse-watry Pumpion; we'll teach him |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.v.23 | Pray you, sir, was't not the wise woman of | Pray you Sir, was't not the Wise-woman of |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.37 | And bootless make the breathless housewife churn, | And bootlesse make the breathlesse huswife cherne, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.383 | That in crossways and floods have burial | That in crosse-waies and flouds haue buriall, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.79 | myself will bear witness, is praiseworthy. And now tell | my selfe will beare witnesse is praise worthie, and now tell |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.269 | Let housewives make a skillet of my helm, | Let House-wiues make a Skillet of my Helme, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.111 | housewifery, and housewives in your beds. | Huswiferie, and Huswiues in your Beds. |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.72 | In her prophetic fury sewed the work: | In her Prophetticke furie sow'd the Worke: |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.94 | A housewife, that by selling her desires | A Huswife that by selling her desires |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.182 | Proclaim that I can sing, weave, sew, and dance, | proclaime that I can sing, weaue, sow, & dance, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.93 | Or here or elsewhere to the furthest verge | Or heere, or elsewhere to the furthest Verge |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.221 | She is too fair, too wise, wisely too fair, | She is too faire, too wisewi: sely too faire, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.ii.43 | I'll play the housewife for this once. What, ho! | Ile play the huswife for this once. What ho? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.54 | Full of rose-water and bestrewed with flowers, | Full of Rose-water, and bestrew'd with Flowers, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.6 | If not, elsewhere they meet with charity. | If not, elsewhere they meete with charitie: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.131 | Master, if ever I said loose-bodied gown, sew me | Master, if euer I said loose-bodied gowne, sow me |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.142 | the sleeves should be cut out, and sewed up again; and | the sleeues should be cut out, and sow'd vp againe, and |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.422 | The bounteous housewife Nature on each bush | The bounteous Huswife Nature, on each bush, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iv.39 | And in a tedious sampler sewed her mind; | And in a tedious Sampler sowed her minde. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iv.43 | That could have better sewed than Philomel. | That could haue better sowed then Philomel. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.72 | sweet sewer! | sweet sure. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.102 | Carry his water to the wisewoman. | Carry his water to th'wise woman. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.298 | Item: She can sew. | Item, she can sowe. |