| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.iv.21 | The smallness of a gnat, to air: and then | The smalnesse of a Gnat, to ayre: and then |
| King John | KJ IV.i.92 | A grain, a dust, a gnat, a wandering hair, | A graine, a dust, a gnat, a wandering haire, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.164 | To see a king transformed to a gnat! | To see a King transformed to a Gnat? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.67 | Her waggoner, a small grey-coated gnat, | her Waggoner, a small gray-coated Gnat, |