| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.90 | I cannot tremble at it, were it Toad, or Adder, Spider, | I cannot tremble at it, were it Toad, or Adder, Spider, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.339 | My brain, more busy than the labouring spider, | My Brayne, more busie then the laboring Spider, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.62 | For eminent assistants, but spider-like, | To eminent Assistants; but Spider-like |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.285 | And not a poison-sucking envious spider, | And not a poison sucking enuious spider, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.81 | He, with the spider afterward approached, | He with the spider afterward approcht |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.128 | That ever spider twisted from her womb | That euer Spider twisted from her wombe |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.263 | To draw with idle spiders' strings | To draw with ydle Spiders strings |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.121 | The painter plays the spider, and hath woven | The Painter plaies the Spider, and hath wouen |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.20 | Weaving spiders, come not here; | Weauing Spiders come not heere, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.14 | But let thy spiders that suck up thy venom, | But let thy Spiders, that suck vp thy Venome, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.19 | Than I can wish to wolves – spiders, toads, | Then I can wish to Wolues, to Spiders, Toades, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.241 | Why strew'st thou sugar on that bottled spider | Why strew'st thou Sugar on that Bottel'd Spider, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.81 | That bottled spider, that foul bunch-backed toad! | That bottel'd Spider, that foule bunch-back'd Toad. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.64 | Her traces, of the smallest spider web; | her Traces of the smallest Spiders web, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.16 | fly from a spider without drawing their massy irons and | Flye from a Spider, without drawing the massie Irons and |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.40 | A spider steeped, and one may drink, depart, | A Spider steep'd, and one may drinke; depart, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.45 | With violent hefts. I have drunk, and seen the spider. | With violent Hefts: I haue drunke, and seene the Spider. |