| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.236 | My wife, her sister, and a rabble more | my wife, her sister, and a rabble more |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.216 | The rabble should have first unroofed the city | The rabble should haue first vnroo'st the City |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.136 | The nature of our seats, and make the rabble | The Nature of our Seats, and make the Rabble |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.180.1 | Enter a rabble of Plebeians, with the Aediles | Enter a rabble of Plebeians with the Adiles. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.262 | Enter Brutus and Sicinius, with the rabble again | Enter Brutus and Sicinius with the rabble againe. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.ii.33 | ‘ I would he had!’ 'Twas you incensed the rabble – | I would he had? Twas you incenst the rable. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.104 | O'erbears your officers. The rabble call him lord, | Ore-beares your Officers, the rabble call him Lord, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.32 | And followed with a rabble that rejoice | And follow'd with a Rabble, that reioyce |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.viii.12 | Or let a rebel lead you to your deaths? | Or let a rabble leade you to your deaths. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iv.70 | There's a trim rabble let in: are all these | Theres a trim rabble let in: are all these |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.252 | You strike my people, and your disordered rabble | You strike my people, and your disorder'd rable, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.70 | at his heels a rabble of his companions, thither provoked | at his heeles, a rabble of his companions, thither prouoked |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.37 | In such another trick. Go bring the rabble, | In such another tricke: goe bring the rabble |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.105 | We are a merry rout, or else a rabble, | We are a merry rout, or else a rable |