| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.389 | As these poor pickaxes can dig: and when | As these poore Pickaxes can digge: and when |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.37 | digged. Could he dig without arms? I'll put another | dig'd; could hee digge without Armes? Ile put another |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.128 | What man dost thou dig it for? | What man dost thou digge it for? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.111 | Then get thee gone, and dig my grave thyself, | Then get thee gone, and digge my graue thy selfe, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.169 | Wilt thou go dig a grave to find out war, | Wilt thou go digge a graue to finde out Warre, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.ii.21 | For who lived king, but I could dig his grave? | For who liu'd King, but I could digge his Graue? |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.165 | And I with my long nails will dig thee pignuts, | and I with my long nayles will digge thee pig-nuts; |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.270 | Do thou so much as dig the grave for him. | Doe thou so much as dig the graue for him, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.11 | 'Tis you must dig with mattock and with spade, | 'Tis you must dig with Mattocke, and with Spade, |