| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.ii.16 | A nursery to our gentry, who are sick | A nursserie to our Gentrie, who are sicke |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.i.59 | I'th' swathing-clothes the other, from their nursery | I'th'swathing cloathes, the other from their Nursery |
| King Lear | KL I.i.124 | On her kind nursery. (To Cordelia) Hence and avoid my sight! – | On her kind nursery. Hence and avoid my sight: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.2 | To see fair Padua, nursery of arts, | To see faire Padua, nurserie of Arts, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.319 | Or, shedding, breed a nursery of like evil | Or shedding breed a Nursery of like euil |