| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.244 | He will steal, sir, an egg out of a cloister. For | He will steale sir an Egge out of a Cloister: for |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.36 | egg all on one side. | Egge, all on one side. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.iv.21 | Some trick not worth an egg, shall grow dear friends | Some tricke not worth an Egge, shall grow deere friends |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.21 | be prologue to an egg and butter. | be Prologue to an Egge and Butter. |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.32 | And therefore think him as a serpent's egg | And therefore thinke him as a Serpents egge, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.153 | they'll be snatching. Nuncle, give me an egg and | Nunckle, giue me an egge, and |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.156 | Why, after I have cut the egg i'the middle and eat | Why after I haue cut the egge i'th'middle and eate |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.157 | up the meat, the two crowns of the egg. When thou | vp the meate, the two Crownes of the egge: when thou |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.51 | Thou'dst shivered like an egg; but thou dost breathe, | Thou'dst shiuer'd like an Egge: but thou do'st breath: |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.ii.83.2 | What, you egg, | What you Egge? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.22 | quarrels as an egg is full of meat; and yet thy head hath | quarrels, as an egge is full of meat, and yet thy head hath |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.23 | been beaten as addle as an egg for quarrelling. Thou | bin beaten as addle as an egge for quarreling: thou |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.133 | I esteem an addle egg. | I esteeme an addle egge. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.134 | If you love an addle egg as well as you love an | If you loue an addle egge as well as you loue an |