| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.13 | picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, | picked, too spruce, too affected, too odde, as it were, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.407 | Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affection, | Three-pil'd Hyperboles, spruce affection; |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.101 | Fellow, you. And thus much for greeting. Now, my spruce | fellow you: and thus much for greeting. Now my spruce |