| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.214 | A seeming mermaid steers. The silken tackle | A seeming Mer-maide steeres: The Silken Tackle, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.64 | Bears a command in't. Though thy tackle's torn, | Beares a Command in't: Though thy Tackles torne, |
| Henry V | H5 III.chorus.8 | Upon the hempen tackle ship-boys climbing; | Vpon the Hempen Tackle, Ship-boyes climbing; |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.15 | Our slaughtered friends the tackles; what of these? | Our slaught'red friends, the Tackles: what of these? |
| King John | KJ V.vii.52 | The tackle of my heart is cracked and burnt, | The tackle of my heart, is crack'd and burnt, |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.61 | And from the ladder-tackle washes off | and from the ladder tackle, washes off |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.185 | And bring thee cords made like a tackled stair, | And bring thee Cords made like a tackled staire, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.147 | Nor tackle, sail, nor mast. The very rats | Nor tackle, sayle, nor mast, the very rats |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.ii.55 | We'll see the sports, then every man to's tackle; | Weele see the sports, then every man to's Tackle: |