| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.224 | Our musty superfluity. See, our best elders. | Our mustie superfluity. See our best Elders. |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.i.26 | Of noisome musty chaff. He said 'twas folly, | Of noysome musty Chaffe. He said, 'twas folly |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.i.32 | You are the musty chaff, and you are smelt | You are the musty Chaffe, and you are smelt |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.352 | is something musty. | is something musty. |
| King Lear | KL IV.vii.40 | In short and musty straw? Alack, alack! | In short, and musty straw? Alacke, alacke, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.46 | You had musty victual, and he hath holp to eat | You had musty victuall, and he hath holpe to ease |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.iii.55 | smoking a musty room, comes me the Prince and | smoaking a musty roome, comes me the Prince and |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.46 | Green earthen pots, bladders, and musty seeds, | Greene earthen pots, Bladders, and mustie seedes, |