| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.162 | For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice, | For his shrunke shanke, and his bigge manly voice, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.9 | More than my shanks and wrists: you good gods, give me | More then my shanks, & wrists: you good Gods giue me |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.35 | carbonado your shanks – Draw, you rascal! Come your | carbonado your shanks, draw you Rascall, come your |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.83 | With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls. | With reckie shankes and yellow chappels sculls: |