| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.182 | Let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me | Let's haue one other gawdy night: Call to me |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.71 | But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy; | But not exprest in fancie; rich, not gawdie: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.1 | The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day | The gaudy blabbing and remorsefull day, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.21 | And beat the winds, that for their gaudiness | And beat the windes, that for their gaudinesse, |
| King John | KJ III.iii.36 | Is all too wanton and too full of gauds | Is all too wanton, and too full of gawdes |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.31 | Video et gaudeo. | Video, & gaudio. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.797 | Nip not the gaudy blossoms of your love, | Nip not the gaudie blossomes of your Loue, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.101 | To entrap the wisest. Therefore thou gaudy gold, | To intrap the wisest. Therefore then thou gaudie gold, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.33 | With bracelets of thy hair, rings, gauds, conceits, | With bracelets of thy haire, rings, gawdes, conceits, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.166 | As the remembrance of an idle gaud | as the remembrance of an idle gaude, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.3 | That I disdain. But for these other gauds, | That I disdaine: but for these other goods, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.176 | That all, with one consent, praise new-born gauds, | That all with one consent praise new borne gaudes, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.157 | To tell the world 'tis but a gaudy shadow | To tell the world, tis but a gaudy shaddow, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.53 | That having two fair gauds of equal sweetness, | That having two faire gawdes of equall sweetnesse, |