| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.ii.65 | Since I nor wax nor honey can bring home, | Since I nor wax nor honie can bring home, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.92 | The seas waxed calm, and we discovered | The seas waxt calme, and we discouered |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.97 | Man-entered thus, he waxed like a sea, | Man-entred thus, he waxed like a Sea, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.ii.35 | All but in that! Good wax, thy leave: blest be | All but in that. Good Wax, thy leaue: blest be |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.12 | In thews and bulk, but as this temple waxes | In thewes and Bulke: but as his Temple waxes, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.87 | He waxes desperate with imagination. | He waxes desperate with imagination. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.101 | Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. | Rich gifts wax poore, when giuers proue vnkinde. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.85 | To flaming youth let virtue be as wax | To flaming youth, let Vertue be as waxe, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.161 | say of wax, my growth would approve the truth. | say of wax, my growth would approue the truth. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.77 | Our thighs packed with wax, our mouths with honey, | The vertuous Sweetes, our Thighes packt with Wax, / Our Mouthes withHoney, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.234 | Not worshipped with a waxen epitaph. | Not worshipt with a waxen Epitaph. |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.80 | Old I do wax, and from my weary limbs | Old I do waxe, and from my wearie limbes |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.160 | grow bald; a fair face will wither; a full eye will wax | grow bald, a faire Face will wither, a full Eye will wax |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.226 | ladies I fright them. But in faith, Kate, the elder I wax, | Ladyes, I fright them: but in faith Kate, the elder I wax, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.9 | Wax dim, as drawing to their exigent; | Waxe dimme, as drawing to their Exigent. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.76 | What! Art thou like the adder waxen deaf? | What? Art thou like the Adder waxen deafe? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.77 | say 'tis the bee's wax, for I did but seal once to a thing, | say, 'tis the Bees waxe: for I did but seale once to a thing, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.x.19 | I seek not to wax great by others' waning, | I seeke not to waxe great by others warning, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.170 | Have wrought the easy-melting King like wax. | Haue wrought the easie-melting King, like Wax. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.51 | As red as fire! Nay, then her wax must melt. | As red as fire? nay then, her Wax must melt. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.145 | In at his window; set this up with wax | In at his Window; set this vp with Waxe |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.216 | Be numb, my joints, wax feeble, both mine arms, | Be numbe my ioynts, waxe feeble both mine armes, |
| King John | KJ V.iv.24 | Which bleeds away, even as a form of wax | Which bleeds away, euen as a forme of waxe |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.259 | Leave, gentle wax; and manners blame us not; | Leaue gentle waxe, and manners: blame vs not |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.62 | Break the neck of the wax, and every one give ear. | Breake the necke of the Waxe, and euery one giue eare. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.10 | That was the way to make his godhead wax, | That was the way to make his god-head wax: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.49 | With rounds of waxen tapers on their heads, | With rounds of waxen Tapers on their heads, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.49 | To whom you are but as a form in wax | To whom you are but as a forme in waxe |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.56 | And waxen in their mirth, and neeze, and swear | And waxen in their mirth, and neeze, and sweare, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.164 | And for night-tapers crop their waxen thighs | And for night-tapers crop their waxen thighes, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.75 | That it may enter Mowbray's waxen coat | That it may enter Mowbrayes waxen Coate, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.77 | As all the world – why, he's a man of wax. | as all the world. Why hee's a man of waxe. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.126 | Ah, sirrah, by my fay, it waxes late. | Ah sirrah, by my faie it waxes late, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.126 | Thy noble shape is but a form of wax, | Thy Noble shape, is but a forme of waxe, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.48 | In a wide sea of tax. No levelled malice | In a wide Sea of wax, no leuell'd malice |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.11 | Ay, but the days are waxed shorter with him. | I, but the dayes are waxt shorter with him: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iii.6 | I cannot read. The character I'll take with wax. | I cannot read: the Charracter Ile take with wax, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.68 | With wax I brought away, whose soft impression | With wax I brought away: whose soft Impression |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.45 | A stone is soft as wax, tribunes, more hard than stones. | A stone is as soft waxe, / Tribunes more hard then stones: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.95 | Who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave, | Who markes the waxing tide, / Grow waue by waue, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.221 | If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, | If the windes rage, doth not the Sea wax mad, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.50 | ear-wax; and the goodly transformation of Jupiter | eare-wax; and the goodly transformation of Iupiter |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.ii.30 | In women's waxen hearts to set their forms. | In womens waxen hearts to set their formes: |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.91 | Her very phrases! By your leave, wax. Soft! and the | Her very Phrases: By your leaue wax. Soft, and the |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.199 | Which, like a waxen image 'gainst a fire, | Which like a waxen Image 'gainst a fire |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.228 | As if but now they waxed pale for woe. | As if but now they waxed pale for woe: |