| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.18 | Yield stinging nettles to mine enemies; | Yeeld stinging Nettles to mine Enemies; |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.329 | As thick as honey-comb, each pinch more stinging | As thicke as hony-combe, each pinch more stinging |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.14 | Like stinging bees in hottest summer's day | Like stinging Bees in hottest Sommers day, |