| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.141 | than an ape, more giddy in my desires than a monkey; | then an ape, more giddy in my desires, then a monkey: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.208 | No, I am an ape. | No, I am an Ape. |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.31 | O sleep, thou ape of death, lie dull upon her, | O sleepe, thou Ape of death, lye dull vpon her, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.195 | Let the birds fly, and like the famous ape, | Let the Birds flye, and like the famous Ape |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.ii.17 | King best service in the end. He keeps them, like an ape | King best seruice in the end. He keepes them like an Ape |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.80 | Out, you mad-headed ape! | Out you mad-headed Ape, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.68 | not transformed him ape. | haue not transform'd him Ape. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.211 | Ah, you sweet little rogue, you! Alas, poor ape, | Ah, you sweet little Rogue, you: alas, poore Ape, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.445 | Is sin and subornation; deck an ape | Is sin and subbornation: Decke an Ape |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.83 | The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee | The Foxe, the Ape, and the Humble-Bee, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.87 | The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.93 | The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.126 | master, the ape his keeper, the tired horse his rider. | master, the Ape his keeper, the tyred Horse his rider: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.325 | This is the ape of form, Monsieur the Nice, | This is the Ape of Forme, Monsieur the nice, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.120 | His glassy essence, like an angry ape | (His glassie Essence) like an angry Ape |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.i.76 | By gar, you are de coward, de Jack dog, John ape. | By-gar, you are de Coward: de Iack dog: Iohn Ape. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.181 | On meddling monkey or on busy ape – | On medling Monkey, or on busie Ape) |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.194 | He is then a giant to an ape; but then is an ape | He is then a Giant to an Ape, but then is an Ape |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.130 | Because that I am little, like an ape, | Because that I am little, like an Ape, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.i.16 | The ape is dead, and I must conjure him. | The Ape is dead, I must coniure him, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.98 | her ape: he so near to Hermione hath done Hermione | her Ape: He so neere to Hermione, hath done Hermione, |