| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.i.35 | Kingdoms are clay. Our dungy earth alike | Kingdomes are clay: Our dungie earth alike |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.4 | But clay and clay differs in dignity, | But Clay and Clay, differs in dignitie, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.94 | O, a pit of clay for to be made | O a Pit of Clay for to be made, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.118 | (sings) O, a pit of clay for to be made | O a Pit of Clay for to be made, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.209 | Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, | Imperiall Casar, dead and turn'd to clay, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.7 | brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able | braine of this foolish compounded Clay-man, is not able |
| Henry V | H5 IV.viii.123 | The dead with charity enclosed in clay; | The dead with charitie enclos'd in Clay: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.14 | Unable to support this lump of clay, | (Vnable to support this Lumpe of Clay) |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.311 | And temper clay with blood of Englishmen; | And temper Clay with blood of Englishmen. |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.137 | Which was embounded in this beauteous clay, | Which was embounded in this beauteous clay, |
| King John | KJ V.vii.69 | When this was now a king, and now is clay? | When this was now a King, and now is clay? |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.301 | To temper clay. Yea, is't come to this? | To temper Clay. Ha? |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.179 | Men are but gilded loam, or painted clay. | Men are but gilded loame, or painted clay. |