| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.197 | Yet in this captious and intenable sieve | Yet in this captious, and intemible Siue. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.8 | But in a sieve I'll thither sail, | But in a Syue Ile thither sayle, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.5 | As water in a sieve. Give not me counsel, | As water in a siue: giue not me counsaile, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.72 | We do not throw in unrespective sieve | We do not throw in vnrespectiue same, |