| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.102.2 | Tug him away. Being whipped, | Tugge him away: being whipt |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.193 | bottom, like the Bay of Portugal. | bottome, like the Bay of Portugall. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.218 | Exeunt Hamlet, tugging in Polonius, and the Queen | Exit Hamlet tugging in Polonius. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iii.48 | I mean to tug it and to cuff you soundly. | I meane to tugge it, and to cuffe you soundly. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.173 | And tugged for life, and was by strength subdued. | And tugg'd for Life, and was by strength subdude. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.11 | Both tugging to be victors, breast to breast, | Both tugging to be Victors, brest to brest: |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.146 | To tug and scamble and to part by th' teeth | To tug and scamble, and to part by th'teeth |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.111 | So weary with disasters, tugged with fortune, | So wearie with Disasters, tugg'd with Fortune, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.494 | Tug for the time to come. This you may know, | Tug for the time to come. This you may know, |