| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.124 | If ever we are nature's, these are ours; this thorn | If euer we are natures, these are ours, this thorne |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.ii.19 | You barely leave our thorns to prick ourselves, | You barely leaue our thornes to pricke our selues, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iv.32 | When briars shall have leaves as well as thorns | When Briars shall haue leaues as well as thornes, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.95 | You touched my vein at first: the thorny point | You touch'd my veine at first, the thorny point |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.347 | their barks; hangs odes upon hawthorns, and elegies on | their barkes; hangs Oades vpon Hauthornes, and Elegies on |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.48 | Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven | Shew me the steepe and thorny way to Heauen; |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.87 | And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge | And to those Thornes that in her bosome lodge, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.174 | And plant this thorn, this canker Bolingbroke? | And plant this Thorne, this Canker Bullingbrooke? |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.i.35 | I prithee lend me thy lantern, to see my | I prethee lend me thy Lanthorne to see my |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.i.41 | lantern, quoth he! Marry, I'll see thee hanged first. | Lanthorne (quoth-a) marry Ile see thee hang'd first. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.46 | cannot he see, though he have his own lanthorn to light | cannot he see, though he haue his owne Lanthorne to light |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.33 | Pluck a red rose from off this thorn with me. | Pluck a red Rose from off this Thorne with me. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.69 | Hath not thy rose a thorn, Plantagenet? | Hath not thy Rose a Thorne, Plantagenet? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iii.25 | My stay, my guide, and lantern to my feet. | my stay, my guide, / And Lanthorne to my feete: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.67 | To mow down thorns that would annoy our foot, | To mowe downe Thornes that would annoy our Foot, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.42 | Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade | Giues not the Hawthorne bush a sweeter shade |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.174 | And I – like one lost in a thorny wood, | And I, like one lost in a Thornie Wood, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.175 | That rents the thorns and is rent with the thorns, | That rents the Thornes, and is rent with the Thornes, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.67 | Brave followers, yonder stands the thorny wood, | Braue followers, yonder stands the thornie Wood, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.13 | What! Can so young a thorn begin to prick? | What? can so young a Thorne begin to prick? |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.224 | Of the good Queen, but the sharp thorny points | Of the good Queene; but the sharpe thorny points |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.110 | Is far more thorny-pricking than this blade; | Is farre more thornie pricking than this blade. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.90 | Lust is a fire, and men like lanthorns show | Lust as a fire, and me like lanthorne show, |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.141 | Among the thorns and dangers of this world. | Among the thornes, and dangers of this world. |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.45 | Through the sharp hawthorn blow the cold winds. | through the sharpe Hauthorne blow the windes. |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.95 | Still through the hawthorn blows the cold wind, | Still through the Hauthorne blowes the cold winde: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.110 | Ne'er to pluck thee from thy thorn, | Nere to plucke thee from thy throne: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.67 | these lisping hawthorn-buds that come like women in | these lisping-hauthorne buds, that come like women in |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.78 | And twenty glow-worms shall our lanterns be, | And twenty glow-wormes shall our Lanthornes bee |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.77 | Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, | Then that which withering on the virgin thorne, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.185 | When wheat is green, when hawthorn buds appear. | When wheate is greene, when hauthorne buds appeare, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.10 | Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen; | Thorny Hedgehogges be not seene, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.4 | hawthorn brake our tiring-house, and we will do it in | hauthorne brake our tyring house, and we will do it in |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.54 | thorns and a lantern, and say he comes to disfigure or to | thorns and a lanthorne, and say he comes to disfigure, or to |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.29 | For briars and thorns at their apparel snatch, | For briars and thornes at their apparell snatch, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.134 | This man with lantern, dog, and bush of thorn | This man, with Lanthorne, dog, and bush of thorne, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.233 | This lanthorn doth the horned moon present. | This Lanthorne doth the horned Moone present. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.237 | This lanthorn doth the horned moon present; | This lanthorne doth the horned Moone present: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.240 | should be put into the lanthorn. How is it else the man | Should be put into the Lanthorne. How is it els the man |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.251 | lantern is the moon, I the man i'th' moon, this thorn | Lanthorne is the Moone; I, the man in the Moone; this thorne |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.252 | bush my thorn bush, and this dog my dog. | bush, my thorne bush; and this dog, my dog. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.253 | Why, all these should be in the lantern; for | Why all these should be in the Lanthorne: for |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.24 | lantern. This is your charge: you shall comprehend all | lanthorne: this is your charge: You shall comprehend all |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.142 | An if she were a thornier piece of ground than she | And if shee were a thornyer peece of ground then shee |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.322 | Shall feel this day as sharp to them as thorn. | Shall feele this day as sharpe to them as Thorne. |
| 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. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.84 | A grave? O, no, a lantern, slaughtered youth. | A Graue; O no, a Lanthorne; slaughtred Youth: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.121.2 | Enter Friar Laurence, with lantern, crow, and spade | Enter Frier with Lanthorne, Crow, and Spade. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.56 | Or Daphne roaming through a thorny wood, | Or Daphne roming through a thornie wood, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.180 | Toothed briars, sharp furzes, pricking goss, and thorns, | Tooth'd briars, sharpe firzes, pricking gosse, & thorns, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.82 | Again betake you to your hawthorn house. | Againe betake you to your hawthorne house, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.329 | Is goads, thorns, nettles, tails of wasps; | Is Goades, Thornes, Nettles, Tayles of Waspes) |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.582 | But O, the thorns we stand upon! Camillo – | But O, the Thornes we stand vpon: (Camillo) |