| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.10 | Thou drunkard, thou – what didst thou mean by this? | Thou drunkard thou, what didst thou meane by this? |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.109 | ‘ Rivo!’ says the drunkard. Call in Ribs, call in Tallow! | Riuo, sayes the drunkard. Call in Ribs, call in Tallow. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.48 | One drunkard loves another of the name. | One drunkard loues another of the name. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.22 | hath this Flemish drunkard picked – with the devil's | hath this Flemish drunkard pickt (with / The Deuills |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.102 | for it drizzles rain; and I will, like a true drunkard, | for it drissels raine, and I will, like a true drunkard, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.295 | I am a drunkard. Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such | I am a drunkard: had I as many mouthes as Hydra, such |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.188 | The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night, | The gray ey'd morne smiles on the frowning night. Checkring the Easterne Cloudes with streaks of light: And fleckled darknesse like a drunkard reeles. From forth daies path. and Titans burning wheeles: Now ere the Sun aduance his burning eye. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.190 | And darkness fleckled like a drunkard reels | And darknesse fleckel'd like a drunkard reeles, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.1 | Now, ere the sun advance his burning eye | The gray ey'd morne smiles on the frowning night, / Checkring the Easterne Cloudes with streaks of light: / And fleckled darknesse like a drunkard reeles, / From forth daies path, and Titans burning wheeles: / Now ere the Sun aduance his burning eye, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.111 | Such duty to the drunkard let him do, | Such dutie to the drunkard let him do: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.131 | I long to hear him call the drunkard husband, | I long to heare him call the drunkard husband, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.1.1 | Enter aloft Sly, with attendants; some with apparel, | Enter aloft the drunkard with attendants, some with apparel, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.163 | of a poor drunkard! | of a poore drunkard. |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.297 | Was I to take this drunkard for a god, | Was I to take this drunkard for a god? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.230 | But like a drunkard must I vomit them. | But like a drunkard must I vomit them: |