| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.240 | A threadbare juggler and a fortune-teller, | A thred-bare Iugler, and a Fortune-teller, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.124 | They would not thread the gates. This kind of service | They would not thred the Gates: This kinde of Seruice |
| Henry V | H5 III.chorus.10 | To sounds confused; behold the threaden sails, | To sounds confus'd: behold the threaden Sayles, |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.46 | And let not Bardolph's vital thread be cut | and let not Bardolphs vitall thred bee cut |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.34 | His thread of life had not so soon decayed. | His thred of Life had not so soone decay'd. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.7 | So he had need, for 'tis threadbare. Well, I | So he had need, for 'tis thred-bare. Well, I |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.29 | Argo, their thread of life is spun. | Argo, their thred of life is spun. |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.122 | Today our sword shall cut his thread of life, | To day our sword shall cut his thred of life, |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.127 | And if thou wantest a cord, the smallest thread | And if thou want'st a Cord, the smallest thred |
| King John | KJ V.iv.11 | Unthread the rude eye of rebellion, | Vnthred the rude eye of Rebellion, |
| King John | KJ V.vii.54 | Are turned to one thread, one little hair; | Are turned to one thred, one little haire: |
| King Lear | KL II.i.118 | Thus out of season, threading dark-eyed night – | Thus out of season, thredding darke ey'd night, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.16 | He draweth out the thread of his verbosity | He draweth out the thred of his verbositie, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.278 | Cut thread and thrum, | Cut thred and thrum, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.333 | With shears his thread of silk. | With sheeres, his thred of silke. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.25 | Fetter strong madness in a silken thread, | Fetter strong madnesse in a silken thred, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.205 | Shore his old thread in twain. Did he live now, | Shore his old thred in twaine. Did he liue now, |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.108 | Or till the destinies do cut his thread of life. | or till the Destinies doe cut his threed of life: |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.17 | To thread the postern of a small needle's eye.’ | To thred the posterne of a Needles eye. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.180 | And with a silken thread plucks it back again, | And with a silken thred plucks it backe againe, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.47 | Remnants of packthread, and old cakes of roses | Remnants of packthred, and old cakes of Roses |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.61 | here and there pieced with packthread. | heere and there peec'd with packthred. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.106 | O monstrous arrogance! Thou liest, thou thread, thou thimble, | Oh monstrous arrogance: / Thou lyest, thou thred, thou thimble, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.109 | Braved in mine own house with a skein of thread? | Brau'd in mine owne house with a skeine of thred: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.119 | Marry, sir, with needle and thread. | Marrie sir with needle and thred. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.133 | brown thread. I said a gown. | browne thred: I said a gowne. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.45 | And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, | And the free maides that weaue their thred with bones, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.316 | Any silk, any thread, | Any Silke, any Thred, |