| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.181 | We have some old crab-trees here at home that will not | we haue / Some old Crab-trees here at home, / That will not |
| 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. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.214 | Was graft with crab-tree slip, whose fruit thou art, | Was graft with Crab-tree slippe, whose Fruit thou art, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iv.7 | Is this a place to roar in? Fetch me a dozen crab-tree | Is this a place to roare in? Fetch me a dozen Crab-tree |
| King Lear | KL I.v.15 | for though she's as like this as a crab's like an apple, yet | for though she's as like this, as a Crabbe's like an Apple, yet |
| 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 |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.914 | When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, | When roasted Crabs hisse in the bowle, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.94 | in him. Something too crabbed that way, friar. | in him: Something too crabbed that way, Frier. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.128 | O be thou damned, inexecrable dog, | O be thou damn'd, inexecrable dogge, |
| 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 Tempest | Tem II.ii.164 | I prithee, let me bring thee where crabs grow; | I 'prethee let me bring thee where Crabs grow; |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.8 | Ten times more gentle than her father's crabbed, | Ten times more gentle, then her Father's crabbed; |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.176 | Give sentence on this execrable wretch | Giue sentence on this execrable Wretch, |
| 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 |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.102 | Three crabbed months had soured themselves to death | Three crabbed Moneths had sowr'd themselues to death, |