| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iv.57 | A carbuncle entire, as big as thou art, | A Carbuncle intire: as big as thou art |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.189 | And would so, had it been a carbuncle | And would so, had it beene a Carbuncle |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.219 | A plague-sore, an embossed carbuncle, | A plague sore, or imbossed Carbuncle |