| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.172 | that I was an Irish rat, which I can hardly remember. | that I was an Irish Rat, which I can hardly remember. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.248.1 | As I would serve a rat.’ | As I would serue a Rat. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.25 | How now? A rat? Dead for a ducat, dead! | How now, a Rat? dead for a Ducate, dead. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.i.10 | Whips out his rapier, cries, ‘ A rat, a rat!’ | He whips his Rapier out, and cries a Rat, a Rat, |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.126 | for sallets, swallows the old rat and the ditch-dog, | for Sallets; swallowes the old Rat, and the ditch-Dogge; |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.304 | Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, | Why should a Dog, a Horse, a Rat haue life, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.9 | And like a rat without a tail | And like a Rat without a tayle, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.44 | What if my house be troubled with a rat | What if my house be troubled with a Rat, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.100 | houses! Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a cat, to scratch | houses. What, a Dog, a Rat, a Mouse, a Cat to scratch |