| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.i.11 | But what linsey-woolsey hast thou to speak | But what linsie wolsy hast thou to speake |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.114 | Why in this wolvish toge should I stand here | Why in this Wooluish tongue should I stand heere, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.9 | To call them woollen vassals, things created | To call them Wollen Vassailes, things created |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.130 | How now, woolsack, what mutter you? | How now Woolsacke, what mutter you? |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.228.1 | Enter to Wolsey the Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk, the | Enter to Woolsey, the Dukes of Norfolke and Suffolke, the |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.101 | worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the | Worme no Silke; the Beast, no Hide; the Sheepe, no Wooll; the |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.707 | woolward for penance. | woolward for penance. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.15 | Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, | Wooll of Bat, and Tongue of Dogge: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.80 | Between these woolly breeders in the act, | Betweene these woolly breeders in the act, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.56 | Why he a woollen bagpipe, but of force | Why he a woollen bag-pipe: but of force |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.27 | beard on his face! I had rather lie in the woollen. | beard on his face, I had rather lie in the woollen. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.34 | My fleece of woolly hair that now uncurls | My fleece of Woolly haire, that now vncurles, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.ii.4 | And darkness lord o'th' world. Hark; 'tis a wolf! | And darkenes Lord o'th world, Harke tis a woolfe: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.33 | what comes the wool to? | what comes the wooll too? |