| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.22 | Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain, | Vpon the slime and Ooze scatters his graine, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.205 | The ooze, to show what coast thy sluggish care | The Ooze, to shew what Coast thy sluggish care |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.67 | And with such cozenage – is't not perfect conscience | And with such coozenage; is't not perfect conscience, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.ii.83 | Therefore be merry, coz, since sudden sorrow | Therefore be merry (Cooze) since sodaine sorrow |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.164 | As is the ooze and bottom of the sea | As is the Owse and bottome of the Sea |
| Pericles | Per III.i.60 | Must cast thee, scarcely coffined, in the ooze, | Must cast thee scarcly Coffind, in oare, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.252 | Thou dost; and think'st it much to tread the ooze | Thou do'st: & thinkst it much to tread ye Ooze |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.102 | Therefore my son i'th' ooze is bedded, and | Therefore my Sonne i'th Ooze is bedded; and |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.21 | Our poesy is as a gum which oozes | Our Poesie is as a Gowne, which vses |