| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.60 | Deserved this so dishonoured rub, laid falsely | Deseru'd this so dishonor'd Rub, layd falsely |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.65 | To sleep – perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub. | To sleepe, perchance to Dreame; I, there's the rub, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.282 | Here, Hamlet, take my napkin. Rub thy brows. | Heere's a Napkin, rub thy browes, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.77 | Which gape and rub the elbow at the news | Which gape, and rub the Elbow at the newes |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.188 | But every rub is smoothed on our way. | But euery Rubbe is smoothed on our way. |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.33 | What rub or what impediment there is | What Rub, or what Impediment there is, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.129 | The least rub in your fortunes, fall away | The least rub in your fortunes, fall away |
| King John | KJ III.iv.128 | Shall blow each dust, each straw, each little rub, | Shall blow each dust, each straw, each little rub |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.52.1 | Rub him about the temples. | Rub him about the Temples. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.140 | And time to speak it in. You rub the sore, | And time to speake it in: you rub the sore, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.48 | Troilus) So, so, rub on, and kiss the mistress. How | So, so, rub on, and kisse the mistresse; how |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.115 | Th' art i'the right. (To Malvolio) Go, sir, rub | Th'art i'th right. Goe sir, rub |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.86.1 | Why do you rub my kiss off? | Why doe you rub my kisse off? |