| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.49 | wants a cullison,’ and ‘ Your beer is sour,’ and blabbering | |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.166 | They bore him bare-faced on the bier, | They bore him bare fac'd on the Beer, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.208 | might they not stop a beer barrel? | might they not stopp a Beere-barrell? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.6 | it not show vilely in me to desire small beer? | it not shew vildely in me, to desire small Beere? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.11 | creature small beer. But indeed, these humble considerations | Creature, Small Beere. But indeede these humble considerations |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iii.64 | And here's a pot of good double beer, | And here's a Pot of good Double-Beere |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.63 | ten hoops; and I will make it felony to drink small beer. | ten hoopes, and I wil make it Fellony to drink small Beere. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.26 | Those frothy Dutchmen puffed with double beer, | Those frothy Dutch men, puft with double beere, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.157 | To suckle fools and chronicle small beer. | To suckle Fooles, and chronicle small Beere. |