| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.245 | I'll speak to it though hell itself should gape | Ile speake to it, though Hell it selfe should gape |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.77 | Which gape and rub the elbow at the news | Which gape, and rub the Elbow at the newes |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.56 | Leave gormandizing; know the grave doth gape | Leaue gourmandizing; Know the Graue doth gape |
| Henry V | H5 II.i.58 | The grave doth gape, and doting death is near: | The Graue doth gape, and doting death is neere, |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.41 | Let gallows gape for dog; let man go free, | let Gallowes gape for Dogge, let Man goe free, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.161 | May that ground gape and swallow me alive, | May that ground gape, and swallow me aliue, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.15 | Spendthrifts, and such that gape for nothing else | Spend thrifts, and such as gape for nothing else, |
| King John | KJ II.i.375 | As in a theatre, whence they gape and point | As in a Theater, whence they gape and point |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.392 | Would you, the supervisor, grossly gape on? | Would you the super-vision grossely gape on? |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.65 | Or earth gape open wide and eat him quick, | Or Earth gape open wide, and eate him quicke, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.58 | And gape at wid'st to glut him. | And gape at widst to glut him. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.292 | When I arrived and heard thee, that made gape | When I arriu'd, and heard thee, that made gape |