| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.37 | Without his roe, like a dried herring. O flesh, | Without his Roe, like a dryed Hering. O flesh, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.47 | As breathed stags, ay, fleeter than the roe. | As breathed Stags: I fleeter then the Roe. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.58 | a lizard, an owl, a puttock, or a herring without a roe, I | a Lizard, an Owle, a Puttocke, or a Herring without a Roe, I |