| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.84 | niggard of hair, being, as it is, so plentiful an excrement? | niggard of haire, being (as it is) so plentifull an excrement? |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.13 | Niggard of question, but of our demands | Niggard of question, but of our demands |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.70 | If not from hell, the devil is a niggard, | If not from Hell? The Diuell is a Niggard, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.226 | Which we will niggard with a little rest. | Which we will niggard with a little rest: |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.123 | Then, dear my liege, now niggard not thy state. | Then deare my liege, now niggard not thy state, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.180 | Be not a niggard of your speech. How goes't? | Be not a niggard of your speech: How gos't? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.77 | From niggard nature fall, yet rich conceit | From niggard Nature fall; yet Rich Conceit |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iv.32 | Rather than niggard, waste; their lives concern us | Rather then niggard wast, their lives concerne us, |