| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.11 | The crickets sing, and man's o'erlaboured sense | The Crickets sing, and mans ore-labor'd sense |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.88 | As merry as crickets, my lad. But hark ye, what | As merrie as Crickets my Lad. But harke yee, What |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.15 | I heard the owl scream and the cricket's cry. | I heard the Owle schreame, and the Crickets cry. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.43 | Cricket, to Windsor chimneys shalt thou leap. | Cricket, to Windsor-chimnies shalt thou leape; |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.III.7 | And crickets sing at the oven's mouth, | And Cricket sing at the Ouens mouth, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.66 | Her whip, of cricket's bone; the lash, of film; | her Whip of Crickets bone, the Lash of Philome, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.108 | Thou flea, thou nit, thou winter-cricket thou! | Thou Flea, thou Nit, thou winter cricket thou: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.ii.35 | The moon is down, the crickets chirp, the screech-owl | The Moone is down, the Cryckets chirpe, the Schreichowle |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.31.1 | Yond crickets shall not hear it. | Yond Crickets shall not heare it. |