| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.39 | The canker galls the infants of the spring | The Canker Galls, the Infants of the Spring |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.69 | To let this canker of our nature come | To let this Canker of our nature come |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.174 | And plant this thorn, this canker Bolingbroke? | And plant this Thorne, this Canker Bullingbrooke? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.68 | Hath not thy rose a canker, Somerset? | Hath not thy Rose a Canker, Somerset? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.71 | Whiles thy consuming canker eats his falsehood. | Whiles thy consuming Canker eates his falsehood. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.18 | Banish the canker of ambitious thoughts! | Banish the Canker of ambitious thoughts: |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.27 | Nor rusting canker have the time to eat | Nor rust in canker, haue the time to eate, |
| King John | KJ V.ii.14 | And heal the inveterate canker of one wound | And heale the inueterate Canker of one wound, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.282 | O me, you juggler, you canker-blossom, | O me, you iugler, you canker blossome, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.iii.25 | I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose | I had rather be a canker in a hedge, then a rose |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.26 | Full soon the canker death eats up that plant. | Full soone the Canker death eates vp that Plant. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.416 | With grief, that's beauty's canker, thou mightst call him | With greefe (that's beauties canker) yu might'st call him |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.50 | A beast, as thou art. The canker gnaw thy heart | A Beast as thou art. The Canker gnaw thy hart |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.43 | The eating canker dwells, so eating love | The eating Canker dwels; so eating Loue |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.46 | Is eaten by the canker ere it blow, | Is eaten by the Canker ere it blow, |