| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.118 | That labouring art can never ransom nature | That labouring Art can neuer ransome nature |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vi.14 | There saw you labouring for him. What was't | There saw you labouring for him. What was't |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.i.52 | purses than giving direction doth from labouring. Thou | Purses, then giuing direction, doth from labouring. Thou |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.339 | My brain, more busy than the labouring spider, | My Brayne, more busie then the laboring Spider, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.163 | Being all descended to the labouring heart; | Being all descended to the labouring heart, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.17 | be labouring men;’ and therefore should we | be labouring men, and therefore should we |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.i.4 | Upon a labouring day without the sign | Vpon a labouring day, without the signe |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.31 | And he is labouring for a knighthood, man. | And he is laboring for a knighthood man. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.92 | Like the continual labouring woodman's axe | Like the continuall laboring Wood-mans Axe, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.80 | The wealthy tribute of my labouring hands, | The wealthie tribute of my laboring hands, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.66 | there's no labouring i'the winter. All that follow their | ther's no labouring i'th'winter. All that follow their |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.518 | When great things labouring perish in their birth. | When great things labouring perish in their birth. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.388 | Labouring to save his life, and would not rather | Labouring to saue his life: and would not rather |
| Othello | Oth II.i.181 | And let the labouring bark climb hills of seas, | And let the labouring Barke climbe hills of Seas |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.8 | Labouring for nine. | Labouring for Nine. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.37 | Even in the birth of our own labouring breath: | Euen in the birth of our owne laboring breath. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.184 | Labouring for destiny, make cruel way | Labouring for destiny, make cruell way |