| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text | 
		
			| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.299 | By many an ounce – he dropped it for his country; | By many an Ounce) he dropp'd it for his Country: | 
		
			| King Lear | KL IV.vi.130 | fie! Pah, pah! Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, | fie; pah, pah: Giue me an Ounce of Ciuet; good Apothecary  | 
		
			| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.133 | My sweet ounce of man's flesh! my incony Jew! – Now | My sweete ounce of mans flesh, my in-conie Iew: | 
		
			| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.36 | Be it ounce or cat or bear, | Be it Ounce, or Catte, or Beare, | 
		
			| Twelfth Night | TN IV.i.42 | What, what! Nay, then, I must have an ounce | What, what? Nay then I must haue an Ounce  | 
		
			| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.700 | the dearer by I know not how much an ounce. | the dearer, by I know how much an ounce. |