| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.187 | Usurping ivy, briar, or idle moss, | Vsurping Iuie, Brier, or idle Mosse, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.30 | From off this briar pluck a white rose with me. | From off this Bryer pluck a white Rose with me. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.3 | Thorough bush, thorough briar, | through bush, through briar, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.87 | Of colour like the red rose on triumphant briar, | Of colour like the red rose on triumphant bryer, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.101 | Thorough bog, thorough bush, thorough brake, thorough briar, | Through bogge, through bush, through brake, through bryer, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.384 | Hop as light as bird from briar, | Hop as light as bird from brier, |