| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.iv.6 | That barefoot plod I the cold ground upon, | That bare-foot plod I the cold ground vpon |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.ii.52 | May plod it in a week, why may not I | May plod it in a weeke, why may not I |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.278 | And plodded like a man for working-days; | And plodded like a man for working dayes: |
| Henry V | H5 II.i.23 | plod – there must be conclusions – well, I cannot tell. | plodde, there must be Conclusions, well, I cannot tell. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.54 | Bare-headed plodded by my foot-cloth mule, | Bare-headed plodded by my foot-cloth Mule, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.86 | Small have continual plodders ever won, | Small haue continuall plodders euer wonne, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.293 | And abstinence engenders maladies. | And abstinence ingenders maladies. / And where that you haue vow'd to studie (Lords) / In that each of you haue forsworne his Booke. / Can you still dreame and pore, and thereon looke. / For when would you my Lord, or you, or you, / Haue found the ground of studies excellence, / Without the beauty of a womans face; / From womens eyes this doctrine I deriue, / They are the Ground, the Bookes, the Achadems, / From whence doth spring the true Promethean fire. / Why, vniuersall plodding poysons vp / The nimble spirits in the arteries, / As motion and long during action tyres / The sinnowy vigour of the trauailer. / Now for not looking on a womans face, / You haue in that forsworne the vse of eyes: / And studie too, the causer of your vow. / For where is any Author in the world, / Teaches such beauty as a womans eye: / Learning is but an adiunct to our selfe, / And where we are, our Learning likewise is. / Then when our selues we see in Ladies eyes, / With our selues. / Doe we not likewise see our learning there? |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.77 | Trudge, plod away o'th' hoof, seek shelter, pack! | Trudge; plod away ith' hoofe: seeke shelter, packe: |