| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.v.44 | This treasure of an oyster; at whose foot, | This treasure of an Oyster: at whose foote |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.32 | Why, 'tis a boisterous and a cruel style, | Why, tis a boysterous and a cruell stile, |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.60 | your foul oyster. | your foule oyster. |
| King John | KJ III.iv.136 | Must be as boisterously maintained as gained; | Must be as boysterously maintain'd as gain'd. |
| King John | KJ IV.i.94 | Then feeling what small things are boisterous there, | Then feeling what small things are boysterous there, |
| King Lear | KL I.v.25 | Canst tell how an oyster makes his shell? | Can'st tell how an Oyster makes his shell? |
| Macbeth | Mac III.ii.41 | His cloistered flight, ere to black Hecat's summons | His Cloyster'd flight, ere to black Heccats summons |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.176 | This day my sister should the cloister enter, | This day, my sister should the Cloyster enter, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.2 | Why then, the world's mine oyster, | Why then the world's mine Oyster, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.23 | sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll | sworne, but loue may transforme me to an oyster, but Ile |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.24 | take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me, he | take my oath on it, till he haue made an oyster of me, he |
| Richard II | R2 I.iv.31 | Off goes his bonnet to an oyster-wench. | Off goes his bonnet to an Oyster-wench, |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.23 | And cloister thee in some religious house. | And Cloyster thee in some Religious House: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.26 | Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn. | Too rude, too boysterous, and it pricks like thorne. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.ii.101 | As much as an apple doth an oyster, | As much as an apple doth an oyster, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.223 | That the bleak air, thy boisterous chamberlain, | That the bleake ayre, thy boysterous Chamberlaine |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.iii.2 | Wherewith my brother held you in the cloister? | Wherewith my brother held you in the Cloyster? |