| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.ii.55 | I play the noble housewife with the time, | I play the noble huswife with the time, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.44 | That the false housewife Fortune break her wheel, | That the false Huswife Fortune, breake her Wheele, |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.30 | Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune | Let vs sit and mocke the good houswife Fortune |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.71 | play the idle housewife with me this afternoon. | play the idle Huswife with me this afternoone. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.ii.78.1 | A franklin's housewife. | A Franklins Huswife. |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.45.1 | For you must be our housewife. | For you must be our Huswife. |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.76 | Doth Fortune play the housewife with me now? | Doeth fortune play the huswife with me now? |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.24 | Your graces find me here part of a housewife – | Your Graces find me heere part of a Houswife, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.37 | And bootless make the breathless housewife churn, | And bootlesse make the breathlesse huswife cherne, |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.94 | A housewife, that by selling her desires | A Huswife that by selling her desires |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.ii.43 | I'll play the housewife for this once. What, ho! | Ile play the huswife for this once. What ho? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.422 | The bounteous housewife Nature on each bush | The bounteous Huswife Nature, on each bush, |