| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.251 | they know his conditions and lay him in straw. I have | they know his conditions, and lay him in straw. I haue |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iv.26 | Will not debate the question of this straw. | |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iv.55 | But greatly to find quarrel in a straw | |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.85 | your doublet, and stuff me out with straw. I beseech | your Doublet, and stuffe me out with Straw. I beseech |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.144 | A wisp of straw were worth a thousand crowns | A wispe of straw were worth a thousand Crowns, |
| King John | KJ III.iv.128 | Shall blow each dust, each straw, each little rub, | Shall blow each dust, each straw, each little rub |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.69 | I am cold myself. Where is this straw, my fellow? | I am cold my selfe. Where is this straw, my Fellow? |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.42 | What art thou that dost grumble there i'the straw? | What art thou that dost grumble there i'th'straw? |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.168 | Arm it in rags, a pygmy's straw does pierce it. | Arme it in ragges, a Pigmies straw do's pierce it. |
| King Lear | KL IV.vii.40 | In short and musty straw? Alack, alack! | In short, and musty straw? Alacke, alacke, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.33 | He is coming, sir, he is coming. I hear his straw | He is comming Sir, he is comming: I heare his Straw |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.7 | Tremble and start at wagging of a straw; | Tremble and start at wagging of a Straw: |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.52 | Too much the rein. The strongest oaths are straw | Too much the raigne: the strongest oathes, are straw |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.123 | First thrash the corn, then after burn the straw. | First thrash the Corne, then after burne the straw: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.109 | I prize it not a straw; but for mine honour, | (I prize it not a straw) but for mine Honor, |