| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.174 | man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience; | man in his Bed, wash euery Moth out of his Conscience: |
| King John | KJ IV.i.91 | O heaven, that there were but a mote in yours, | O heauen: that there were but a moth in yours, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.1 | Enter Armado and Mote, his page | Enter Armado and Moth his Page. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.74 | love, my dear Mote? | loue my deare Moth? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.156 | Nay, nothing, Master Mote, but what they look | Nay nothing, Master Moth, but what they looke |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.112 | Thou hast no feeling of it, Mote. I will speak | Thou hast no feeling of it Moth, / I will speake |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.131 | rewarding my dependants. Mote, follow. | my dependants. Moth, follow. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.159 | You found his mote; the King your mote did see; | You found his Moth, the King your Moth did see: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.79 | Thus hath the candle singed the moth. | Thus hath the candle sing'd the moath: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.153 | Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth, and Mustardseed! | Enter Pease-blossome, Cobweb, Moth, Mustardseede, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.310 | A mote will turn the balance which Pyramus, | A Moth wil turne the ballance, which Piramus |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.253 | A moth of peace, and he go to the war, | A Moth of Peace, and he go to the Warre, |