| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.42 | either the mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter? | either the Mason, the Shipwright, or the Carpenter? |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.51 | shipwright, or a carpenter? | Shipwright, or a Carpenter? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.90 | He talks of wood. It is some carpenter. | He talkes of wood: It is some Carpenter. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.i.6 | Why, sir, a carpenter. | Why Sir, a Carpenter. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.1.1 | Enter Quince the carpenter, and Snug the joiner, and | Enter Quince the Carpenter, Snug the Ioyner, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.173 | carpenter? Come, in what key shall a man take you to go | Carpenter: Come, in what key shall a man take you to goe |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.49 | now, a kiss in fee-farm! Build there, carpenter, the air | now, a kisse in fee-farme? build there Carpenter, the ayre |