| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.193 | Why then, let grievous, ghastly, gaping wounds | why then let grieuous, gastly, gaping Wounds, |
| Henry V | H5 III.chorus.27 | With fatal mouths gaping on girded Harfleur. | With fatall mouthes gaping on girded Harflew. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iv.3 | your gaping. | your gaping. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.265 | And every word in it a gaping wound | And euerie word in it a gaping wound |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.47 | Some men there are love not a gaping pig, | Some men there are loue not a gaping Pigge: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.54 | Why he cannot abide a gaping pig, | Why he cannot abide a gaping Pigge? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.370 | That the graves, all gaping wide, | That the graues, all gaping wide, |
| Pericles | Per II.i.33 | on a-th' land who never leave gaping till they swallowed | on, a'th land, Who neuer leaue gaping, till they swallow'd |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.249 | Into this gaping hollow of the earth? | Into this gaping hollow of the earth? |