| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.209 | But I will delve one yard below their mines | |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.242 | breath to utter what is like thee! You tailor's-yard, you | breth to vtter. What is like thee? You Tailors yard, you |
| Henry V | H5 III.ii.61 | four yard under the countermines. By Cheshu, I | foure yard vnder the Countermines: by Cheshu, I |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.88 | crow-keeper. – Draw me a clothier's yard. – Look, look, a | Crow-keeper: draw mee a Cloathiers yard. Looke, looke, a |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.666 | He may not by the yard. | He may not by the yard. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.ii.40 | yard and the tailor with his last, the fisher with his pencil | Yard, and the Tayler with his Last, the Fisher with his Pensill, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.107 | Thou yard, three-quarters, half-yard, quarter, nail, | Thou yard three quarters, halfe yard, quarter, naile, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.111 | Or I shall so bemete thee with thy yard | Or I shall so be-mete thee with thy yard, |