| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.124 | If ever we are nature's, these are ours; this thorn | If euer we are natures, these are ours, this thorne |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.174 | And plant this thorn, this canker Bolingbroke? | And plant this Thorne, this Canker Bullingbrooke? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.33 | Pluck a red rose from off this thorn with me. | Pluck a red Rose from off this Thorne with me. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.69 | Hath not thy rose a thorn, Plantagenet? | Hath not thy Rose a Thorne, Plantagenet? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.13 | What! Can so young a thorn begin to prick? | What? can so young a Thorne begin to prick? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.110 | Ne'er to pluck thee from thy thorn, | Nere to plucke thee from thy throne: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.77 | Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, | Then that which withering on the virgin thorne, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.134 | This man with lantern, dog, and bush of thorn | This man, with Lanthorne, dog, and bush of thorne, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.251 | lantern is the moon, I the man i'th' moon, this thorn | Lanthorne is the Moone; I, the man in the Moone; this thorne |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.252 | bush my thorn bush, and this dog my dog. | bush, my thorne bush; and this dog, my dog. |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.322 | Shall feel this day as sharp to them as thorn. | Shall feele this day as sharpe to them as Thorne. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.26 | Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn. | Too rude, too boysterous, and it pricks like thorne. |