| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.95 | A cistern for scaled snakes! Go get thee hence. | A Cesterne for scal'd Snakes. Go get thee hence, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.63 | The cistern of my lust; and my desire | The Cesterne of my Lust, and my Desire |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.60 | Or keep it as a cistern for foul toads | Or keepe it as a Cesterne, for foule Toades |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.46 | Must be to him that makes the camp a cistern | Must be to him that makes the Campe, a Cestron |