| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.209 | Come, come, you wasp, i'faith, you are too angry. | Come, come you Waspe, y'faith you are too angrie. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.213 | Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting? | Who knowes not where a Waspe does weare his sting? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.132 | Let not this wasp outlive, us both to sting. | Let not this Waspe out-liue vs both to sting. |