| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.iv.32 | On more mechanic compliment. I'll leave thee | On more Mechanicke Complement, Ile leaue thee. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.209 | In Rome as well as I. Mechanic slaves | In Rome as well as I: Mechanicke Slaues |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.83 | Again with Rome's mechanics. Tell me not | Againe, with Romes Mechanickes. Tell me not |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.36 | By most mechanical and dirty hand. | by most Mechanicall and durty hand. |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.200 | The poor mechanic porters crowding in | The poore Mechanicke Porters, crowding in |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.191 | Base dunghill villain and mechanical, | Base Dunghill Villaine, and Mechanicall, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.i.3 | Being mechanical, you ought not walk | (Being Mechanicall) you ought not walke |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.265 | Hang him, mechanical salt-butter rogue! I will | Hang him, mechanicall-salt-butter rogue; I wil |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.9 | A crew of patches, rude mechanicals | A crew of patches, rude Mcehanicals, |