| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.46 | a forehand shaft a fourteen and fourteen and a half, | a fore-hand Shaft at foureteene, and foure-teene and a halfe, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.143 | The bow is bent and drawn; make from the shaft. | The bow is bent & drawne, make from the shaft. |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.138.2 | This murderous shaft that's shot | This murtherous Shaft that's shot, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.140 | In my schooldays, when I had lost one shaft, | In my schoole dayes, when I had lost one shaft |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iv.24 | I'll make a shaft or a bolt on't. 'Slid, 'tis but | Ile make a shaft or a bolt on't, slid, tis but |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.161 | But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft | But I might see young Cupids fiery shaft |
| Pericles | Per II.iv.15 | To bar heaven's shaft, but sin had his reward. | to barre heauens shaft, / But sinne had his reward. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.19 | I am too sore empierced with his shaft | I am too sore enpearced with his shaft, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.i.115 | The shaft confounds, | The Shaft confounds |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.i.36 | How will she love, when the rich golden shaft | How will she loue, when the rich golden shaft |