| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.79 | No hat upon his head, his stockings fouled, | No hat vpon his head, his stockings foul'd, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.68 | not-pated, agate-ring, puke-stocking, caddis-garter, | Not-pated, Agat ring, Puke stocking, Caddice garter, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.15 | silk stockings thou hast – viz. these, and those that were | Silk stockings yu hast? (Viz. these, and those that were |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iii.30 | The faith they have in tennis and tall stockings, | The faith they haue in Tennis and tall Stockings, |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.15 | filthy-worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking, | filthy woosted-stocking knaue, a Lilly-liuered, action-taking, |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.130 | Stocking his messenger. | Stocking his Messenger. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.82 | with foul shirts and smocks, socks, foul stockings, | with foule Shirts and Smockes, Socks, foule Stockings, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.9 | backs, no more stockings than legs, nor no more shoes | backes: no more stockings then legges: nor no more shooes |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.42 | in their new fustian, their white stockings, and | in their new fustian, the white stockings, and |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.148 | Remember who commended thy yellow stockings and wished | Remember who commended thy yellow stockings, and wish'd |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.160 | my yellow stockings of late, she did praise my leg being | my yellow stockings of late, shee did praise my legge being |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.164 | will be strange, stout, in yellow stockings and cross-gartered, | will bee strange, stout, in yellow stockings, and crosse Garter'd, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.192 | yellow stockings, and 'tis a colour she abhors; and cross-gartered, | yellow stockings, and 'tis a colour she abhorres, and crosse garter'd, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.69 | stockings! | stockings. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.48 | stockings – ’ | stockings. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.49 | Thy yellow stockings? | Thy yellow stockings? |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.336 | To put on yellow stockings, and to frown | To put on yellow stockings, and to frowne |