| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.243 | Hast thou the pretty worm of Nilus there, | Hast thou the pretty worme of Nylus there, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.255 | good report o'th' worm. But he that will believe all that | good report o'th'worme: but he that wil beleeue all that |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.257 | this is most fallible, the worm's an odd worm. | this is most falliable, the Worme's an odde Worme. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.259 | I wish you all joy of the worm. | I wish you all ioy of the Worme. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.261 | You must think this, look you, that the worm | You must thinke this (looke you,) that the Worme |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.264 | Look you, the worm is not to be trusted but in | Looke you, the Worme is not to bee trusted, but in |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.266 | goodness in the worm. | goodnesse in the Worme. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.278 | Yes, forsooth. I wish you joy o'th' worm. | Yes forsooth: I wish you ioy o'th'worm. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iii.21 | worm is your only emperor for diet. We fat all creatures | worm is your onely Emperor for diet. We fat all creatures |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iii.26 | A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a | |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iii.27 | king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. | |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.72 | Civil dissension is a viperous worm | Ciuill dissention is a viperous Worme, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.263 | The mortal worm might make the sleep eternal; | The mortall Worme might make the sleepe eternall. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.17 | The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on, | The smallest Worme will turne, being troden on, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.72 | If gall or wormwood have a pleasant taste, | If gall or worm wood haue a pleasant tast, |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.101 | worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the | Worme no Silke; the Beast, no Hide; the Sheepe, no Wooll; the |
| King Lear | KL IV.i.33 | Which made me think a man a worm. My son | Which made me thinke a Man, a Worme. My Sonne |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.28 | There the grown serpent lies. The worm that's fled | There the growne Serpent lyes, the worme that's fled |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.17 | Of a poor worm. Thy best of rest is sleep, | Of a poore worme: thy best of rest is sleepe, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.83 | Vile worm, thou wast o'erlooked even in thy birth. | Vilde worme, thou wast ore-look'd euen in thy birth. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.23 | Worm nor snail, do no offence. | Worme nor Snayle doe no offence. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.71 | Could not a worm, an adder do so much? | Could not a worme, an Adder do so much? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.ii.25 | Where is but a humour or a worm. | Where is but a humour or a worme. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.133 | in the smirched worm-eaten tapestry, where his codpiece | in the smircht worm eaten tapestrie, where his cod-peece |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.76 | wise, if Don Worm, his conscience, find no impediment | wise, if Don worme (his conscience) finde no impediment |
| Pericles | Per I.i.103 | By man's oppression, and the poor worm doth die for't. | By mans oppression, and the poore Worme doth die for't: |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.79 | I trod upon a worm against my will, | I trode vpon a worme against my will, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.221 | The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul! | The Worme of Conscience still begnaw thy Soule, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.151 | As is the bud bit with an envious worm | As is the bud bit with an enuious worme, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.68 | Not half so big as a round little worm | not halfe so bigge as a round little Worme, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.31.2 | Poor worm, thou art infected. | Poore worme thou art infected, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.183 | The gilded newt and eyeless venomed worm, | The gilded Newt, and eyelesse venom'd Worme, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.110 | But let concealment, like a worm i'the bud, | But let concealment like a worme i'th budde |