| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.68 | And with a sudden vigour it doth posset | And with a sodaine vigour it doth posset |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.6 | Do mock their charge with snores; I have drugged their possets | doe mock their charge / With Snores. I haue drugg'd their Possets, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.7 | Go; and we'll have a posset for't | Goe, and we'll haue a posset for't |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.168 | Yet be cheerful, knight. Thou shalt eat a posset | Yet be cheerefull Knight: thou shalt eat a posset |