| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.ii.59 | ‘ After my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff | After my flame lackes oyle, to be the snuffe |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.7 | When oil and fire, too strong for reason's force, | When oyle and fire, too strong for reasons force, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.i.90 | The oil, the balsamum, and aqua-vitae. | The Oyle, the Balsamum, and Aqua-vitae. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.7 | Which hath been smooth as oil, soft as young down, | Which hath beene smooth as Oyle, soft as yong Downe, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.8 | These eyes, like lamps whose wasting oil is spent, | These Eyes, like Lampes,whose wasting Oyle is spent, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.ii.55 | Shall to my flaming wrath be oil and flax. | Shall to my flaming wrath, be Oyle and Flax: |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.88 | As holy oil, Edward Confessor's crown, | As holy Oyle, Edward Confessors Crowne, |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.75 | Bring oil to fire, snow to their colder moods, | Being oile to fire, snow to the colder moodes, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.60 | with so many tuns of oil in his belly, ashore at Windsor? | (with so many Tuns of oyle in his belly) a'shoare at Windsor? |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.35 | the oil that's in me should set hell on fire. He would | the oyle that's in me should set hell on fire; / He would |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.156 | No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil. | No vse of Mettall, Corne, or Wine, or Oyle: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.132 | As this pomp shows to a little oil and root. | As this pompe shewes to a little oyle and roote. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.62 | But, saying thus, instead of oil and balm, | But saying thus, instead of Oyle and Balme, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.103 | This oil out of your language; by this air, | This oile out of your language; by this ayre |