| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.204 | grow old as I am – if, like a crab, you could go backward. | be old as I am, if like a Crab you could go backward. |
| King Lear | KL I.v.18 | She will taste as like this as a crab does to a crab. | She will taste as like this as, a Crabbe do's to a Crab: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.6 | heaven, and anon falleth like a crab on the face of | heauen, and anon falleth like a Crab on the face of |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.48 | In very likeness of a roasted crab; | In very likenesse of a roasted crab: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.227 | It is my fashion when I see a crab. | It is my fashion when I see a Crab. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.228 | Why, here's no crab, and therefore look not sour. | Why heere's no crab, and therefore looke not sowre. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iii.1 | Enter Launce with his dog, Crab | Enter Launce, Panthion. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iii.5 | Crab my dog be the sourest-natured dog that lives. My | Crab my dog, be the sowrest natured dogge that liues: My |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iii.38 | Why, he that's tied here, Crab, my dog. | Why, he that's tide here, Crab my dog. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.22 | acquainted with the smell before, knew it was Crab, and | acquainted with the smell before, knew it was Crab; and |