| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.70 | The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition, | The Cockle of Rebellion, Insolence, Sedition, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.25 | By his cockle hat and staff, | By his Cockle hat and staffe, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.314 | Than are the tender horns of cockled snails. | Then are the tender hornes of Cockled Snayles. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.359.2 | Sowed cockle reaped no corn, | sowed Cockell, reap'd no Corne, |
| Pericles | Per IV.iv.2 | Sail seas in cockles, have and wish but for't, | Saile seas in Cockles, haue and wish but fort, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.66 | Why, 'tis a cockle or a walnut-shell, | Why 'tis a cockle or a walnut-shell, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iv.14 | A carrack of a cockleshell, and sail | A Carecke of a Cockle shell, and sayle |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.130 | Close as a cockle; and all these must be boys – | Close as a Cockle; and all these must be Boyes, |