| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.29 | Come, my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen | Come, my Spade; there is no ancient Gentlemen, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.89 | spade. Here's fine revolution, an we had the trick to | Spade; heere's fine Reuolution, if wee had the tricke to |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.92 | A pickaxe and a spade, a spade, | A Pickhaxe and a Spade, a Spade, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.121.2 | Enter Friar Laurence, with lantern, crow, and spade | Enter Frier with Lanthorne, Crow, and Spade. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.185 | We took this mattock and this spade from him | We tooke this Mattocke and this Spade from him, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.205 | From change of fortune. Why this spade? This place? | From change of future. Why this Spade? this place? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.11 | 'Tis you must dig with mattock and with spade, | 'Tis you must dig with Mattocke, and with Spade, |