| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vii.26 | All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, | All Gold and Siluer rather turne to durt, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.105 | recoveries, to have his fine pate full of fine dirt? Will | Recoueries, to haue his fine Pate full of fine Dirt? will |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.89 | spacious in the possession of dirt. | spacious in the possession of dirt. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.71 | Ay, kennel, puddle, sink, whose filth and dirt | I kennell, puddle, sinke, whose filth and dirt |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.159 | parts, thou borest thine ass on thy back o'er the dirt | parts, thou boar'st thine Asse on thy backe o're the durt, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.163 | As ignorant as dirt! Thou hast done a deed – | As ignorant as durt: thou hast done a deed |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.50 | Out of their saddles into the dirt, and thereby | Out of their saddles into the durt, and thereby |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.69 | horse stumbled, how she waded through the dirt to | horse stumbled, how she waded through the durt to |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.238 | admirable man! Paris? – Paris is dirt to him, and I | admirable man! Paris? Paris is durt to him, and I |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.194 | To match us in comparisons with dirt, | To match vs in comparisons with durt, |