| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.156 | about with his finger and his thumb as one would set up | about with his finger and his thumbe, as one would set vp |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.366 | your fingers and thumb; give it breath with your mouth; | your finger and thumbe, giue it breath with your mouth, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.36 | And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held | And 'twixt his Finger and his Thumbe, he held |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.128 | thumb, and shortly will I seal with him. Come away. | thombe, and shortly will I seale with him. Come away. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.125 | for that Worthy's thumb; he is not so big as the end of | for that Worthies thumb, hee is not so big as the end of |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.111 | Another, with his finger and his thumb, | Another with his finger and his thumb, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.27 | Here I have a pilot's thumb, | Here I haue a Pilots Thumbe, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.41 | Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them; | Nay, as they dare. I wil bite my Thumb at them, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.43 | Do you bite your thumb at us, sir? | Do you bite your Thumbe at vs sir? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.44 | I do bite my thumb, sir. | I do bite my Thumbe, sir. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.45 | Do you bite your thumb at us, sir? | Do you bite your Thumb at vs, sir? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.49 | No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir. But | No sir, I do not bite my Thumbe at you sir: but |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.50 | I bite my thumb, sir. | I bite my Thumbe sir. |