| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.44 | That the false housewife Fortune break her wheel, | That the false Huswife Fortune, breake her Wheele, |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.31 | from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be | from her wheele, that her gifts may henceforth bee |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.154 | She had transformed me to a curtal dog, and made me turn i'the wheel. | she had transform'd me to a Curtull dog, & made me turne i'th wheele. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.19 | Held me in chase, that I was forced to wheel | Held me in chace, that I was forc'd to wheele |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.2 | Death on the wheel or at wild horses' heels, | Death on the Wheele, or at wilde Horses heeles, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.190 | Of Phoebus' wheel; and might so safely, had it | Of Phobus Wheele; and might so safely, had it |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.493 | Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, | Breake all the Spokes and Fallies from her wheele, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.17 | What's near it with it; or 'tis a massy wheel | What's neere it, with it. It is a massie wheele |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.173 | him a-down-a.’ O, how the wheel becomes it! It is the | him a-downe-a. Oh, how the wheele becomes it? It is the |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.126 | Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree, | Or a dry Wheele grate on the Axle-tree, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.250 | Would not this nave of a wheel have his | Would not this Naue of a Wheele haue his |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.26 | And giddy Fortune's furious fickle wheel, | and giddie Fortunes furious fickle Wheele, |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.32 | with a wheel, to signify to you, which is the moral of it, | with a Wheele, to signifie to you, which is the Morall of it, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.v.19 | My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel; | My thoughts are whirled like a Potters Wheele, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iii.48 | My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel. | My minde exceedes the compasse of her Wheele. |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.171 | Fortune, good night: smile once more; turn thy wheel. | Fortune goodnight, / Smile once more, turne thy wheele. |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.69 | stinking. Let go thy hold when a great wheel runs down | stinking; let go thy hold, when a great wheele runs downe |
| King Lear | KL IV.vii.47 | Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears | Vpon a wheele of fire, that mine owne teares |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.172 | The wheel is come full circle; I am here. | The Wheele is come full circle, I am heere. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.54 | I will dismount, and by thy waggon wheel | I will dismount, and by the Waggon wheele, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.vii.2 | Mark what I say. Attend me where I wheel; | Marke what I say; attend me where I wheele: |