| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.v.44 | This treasure of an oyster; at whose foot, | This treasure of an Oyster: at whose foote |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.60 | your foul oyster. | your foule oyster. |
| King Lear | KL I.v.25 | Canst tell how an oyster makes his shell? | Can'st tell how an Oyster makes his shell? |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.2 | Why then, the world's mine oyster, | Why then the world's mine Oyster, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.23 | sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll | sworne, but loue may transforme me to an oyster, but Ile |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.24 | take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me, he | take my oath on it, till he haue made an oyster of me, he |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.ii.101 | As much as an apple doth an oyster, | As much as an apple doth an oyster, |