| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.95 | You touched my vein at first: the thorny point | You touch'd my veine at first, the thorny point |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.48 | Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven | Shew me the steepe and thorny way to Heauen; |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.174 | And I – like one lost in a thorny wood, | And I, like one lost in a Thornie Wood, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.67 | Brave followers, yonder stands the thorny wood, | Braue followers, yonder stands the thornie Wood, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.224 | Of the good Queen, but the sharp thorny points | Of the good Queene; but the sharpe thorny points |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.10 | Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen; | Thorny Hedgehogges be not seene, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.56 | Or Daphne roaming through a thorny wood, | Or Daphne roming through a thornie wood, |