| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.512 | In mincing with his sword her husband's limbs, | In mincing with his Sword her Husbands limbes, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.128 | Nothing so much as mincing poetry. | Nothing so much, as mincing Poetrie; |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.31 | Saving your mincing, the capacity | (Sauing your mincing) the capacity |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iv.67 | With a reed voice, and turn two mincing steps | With a reede voyce, and turne two minsing steps |