| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.10 | By the stern brow and waspish action | By the sterne brow, and waspish action |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.233 | Why, what a wasp-stung and impatient fool | Why what a Waspe-tongu'd & impatient foole |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.55 | There be more wasps that buzz about his nose | There be moe Waspes that buz about his Nose, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.50.1 | When you are waspish. | When you are Waspish. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.209 | Come, come, you wasp, i'faith, you are too angry. | Come, come you Waspe, y'faith you are too angrie. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.210 | If I be waspish, best beware my sting. | If I be waspish, best beware my sting. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.213 | Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting? | Who knowes not where a Waspe does weare his sting? |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.99 | Her waspish-headed son has broke his arrows, | Her waspish headed sonne, has broke his arrowes, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.132 | Let not this wasp outlive, us both to sting. | Let not this Waspe out-liue vs both to sting. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.106 | Injurious wasps, to feed on such sweet honey, | Iniurious Waspes, to feede on such sweet hony, |
| 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.781 | wasp's nest; then stand till he be three-quarters and a | Waspes Nest, then stand till he be three quarters and a |