| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.27 | The codpiece that will house | The Codpiece that will house, |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.40 | Marry, here's grace and a codpiece – that's a wise | Marry here's Grace, and a Codpiece, that's a Wiseman, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.109 | rebellion of a codpiece to take away the life of a man! | rebellion of a Cod-peece, to take away the life of a man? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.133 | in the smirched worm-eaten tapestry, where his codpiece | in the smircht worm eaten tapestrie, where his cod-peece |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vii.53 | You must needs have them with a codpiece, madam. | You must needs haue thẽ with a cod-peece Madam |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vii.56 | Unless you have a codpiece to stick pins on. | Vnlesse you haue a cod-peece to stick pins on. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.607 | geld a codpiece of a purse; I would have filed keys off | gueld a Cod-peece of a Purse: I would haue fill'd Keyes of |