| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.254 | Being moved, he will not spare to gird the gods. | Being mou'd, he will not spare to gird the Gods. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.i.81 | girdle: if you beat us out of it, it is yours: if you fall in | Girdle: if you beate vs out of it, it is yours: if you fall in |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.148 | girdle, hangers, and so. Three of the carriages, in faith, | Girdle, Hangers or so: three of the Carriages infaith |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.149 | an I do, I pray God my girdle break. | if I do, let my Girdle breake. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.6 | Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me. The | Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at mee: the |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.38 | of keys at their girdles; and if a man is through with | of Keyes at their girdles: and if a man is through with |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.50 | The beachy girdle of the ocean | The beachie Girdle of the Ocean |
| Henry V | H5 I.chorus.19 | Suppose within the girdle of these walls | Suppose within the Girdle of these Walls |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.152 | Girding with grievous siege castles and towns; | Girding with grieuous siege, Castles and Townes: |
| Henry V | H5 III.chorus.27 | With fatal mouths gaping on girded Harfleur. | With fatall mouthes gaping on girded Harflew. |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.316 | the cities turned into a maid; for they are all girdled | the Cities turn'd into a Maid; for they are all gyrdled |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.132 | Sweet King! The Bishop hath a kindly gird. | Sweet King: the Bishop hath a kindly gyrd: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iii.20 | Who now is girdled with a waist of iron | Who now is girdled with a waste of Iron, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.63 | And gird thee with the sword. Cousin of York, | And girt thee with the Sword. Cosin of Yorke, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.94 | Shall I not give my girdle from my waist, | Shall I not giue my girdle from my wast, |
| King John | KJ II.i.217 | That as a waist doth girdle you about, | That as a waste doth girdle you about |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.126 | But to the girdle do the gods inherit, | but to the Girdle do the Gods inherit, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.51 | One o' these maids' girdles for your waist should be fit. | One a these Maides girdles for your waste should be fit. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.175 | I'll put a girdle round about the earth | Ile put a girdle about the earth, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.139 | If he be, he knows how to turn his girdle. | If he be, he knowes how to turne his girdle. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iii.10 | ‘ Thus, thus,’ quoth Forrest, ‘ girdling one another | Thus, thus (quoth Forrest) girdling one another |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.58 | I thank thee for that gird, good Tranio. | I thanke thee for that gird good Tranio. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.91 | Knock me down with 'em; cleave me to the girdle. | Knocke me downe with 'em, cleaue mee to the Girdle. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.i.2 | That girdles in those wolves, dive in the earth | That girdles in those Wolues, diue in the earth, |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.i.14 | cockney. I prithee now, ungird thy strangeness, and | Cockney: I prethee now vngird thy strangenes, and |