| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xii.43 | The shirt of Nessus is upon me. Teach me, | The shirt of Nessus is vpon me, teach me |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.iii.1 | Sir, I would advise you to shift a shirt; the | Sir, I would aduise you to shift a Shirt; the |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.iii.5 | If my shirt were bloody, then to shift it. Have I hurt | If my Shirt were bloody, then to shift it. / Haue I hurt |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.81 | Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other, | Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.ii.40 | the most of them out of prison. There's not a shirt and a | the most of them out of Prison. There's not a Shirt and a |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.ii.41 | half in all my company; and the half shirt is two napkins | halfe in all my Company: and the halfe Shirt is two Napkins |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.ii.43 | herald's coat without sleeves. And the shirt to say the truth | Heralds Coat, without sleeues: and the Shirt, to say the truth, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vii.48 | And work in their shirt too; as myself, for example, | And worke in their shirt to, as my selfe for example, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.695 | I'll do it in my shirt. | Ile do it in my shirt. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.701 | combat in my shirt. | combat in my shirt. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.706 | The naked truth of it is, I have no shirt. I go | The naked truth of it is, I haue no shirt, / I go |
| Othello | Oth V.i.47 | Here's one comes in his shirt, with light and weapons. | Here's one comes in his shirt, with Light, and Weapons. |
| Othello | Oth V.i.73 | Light, gentlemen, I'll bind it with my shirt. | Light Gentlemen, Ile binde it with my shirt. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.100 | Two, two. A shirt and a smock. | Two, two: a Shirt and a Smocke. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.224 | Will put thy shirt on warm? Will these moist trees, | Will put thy shirt on warme? Will these moyst Trees, |