| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.vi.38 | Some ditch wherein to die; the foul'st best fits | Some Ditch, wherein to dye: the foul'st best fits |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.57 | Of censuring Rome? Rather a ditch in Egypt | Of censuring Rome? Rather a ditch in Egypt. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.96 | To say he'll turn your current in a ditch, | To say, hee'l turne your Current in a ditch, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.78 | of Moorditch? | of Moore Ditch? |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.25 | Ay, my good lord; safe in a ditch he bides, | I, my good Lord: safe in a ditch he bides, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.14 | it in the muddy ditch close by the Thames side. | it in the muddie ditch, close by the Thames side. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.ii.1 | Come, come. We'll couch i'th' Castle ditch till we | Come, come: wee'll couch i'th Castle-ditch, till we |