| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.182 | Let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me | Let's haue one other gawdy night: Call to me |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.71 | But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy; | But not exprest in fancie; rich, not gawdie: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.1 | The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day | The gaudy blabbing and remorsefull day, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.797 | Nip not the gaudy blossoms of your love, | Nip not the gaudie blossomes of your Loue, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.101 | To entrap the wisest. Therefore thou gaudy gold, | To intrap the wisest. Therefore then thou gaudie gold, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.157 | To tell the world 'tis but a gaudy shadow | To tell the world, tis but a gaudy shaddow, |