| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.ii.23 | Tuesday, a morris for May-day, as the nail to his hole, | tuesday, a Morris for May-day, as the naile to his hole, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.71 | Some devils ask but the parings of one's nail, | Some diuels aske but the parings of ones naile, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vii.54 | One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one nail; | One fire driues out one fire; one Naile, one Naile; |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iii.120 | As nail in door! The things I speak are just. | As naile in doore. The things I speake, are iust. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.902 | And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, | And Dicke the Sphepheard blowes his naile; |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.107 | Thou yard, three-quarters, half-yard, quarter, nail, | Thou yard three quarters, halfe yard, quarter, naile, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.61 | Where thou mayst knock a nail into his head. | Where thou maist knocke a naile into his head. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.46 | It were no match, your nail against his horn. | It were no match, your naile against his horne: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.191 | Or as one nail by strength drives out another, | Or as one naile, by strength driues out another. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.269 | And as I have a soul, I'll nail thy life to't. | And as I have a soule, Ile naile thy life too't. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.102 | The very mould and frame of hand, nail, finger. | The very Mold, and frame of Hand, Nayle, Finger.) |