| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.191 | That's wormwood. | Wormwood, Wormwood. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.72 | If gall or wormwood have a pleasant taste, | If gall or worm wood haue a pleasant tast, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.836 | To weed this wormwood from your fruitful brain, | To weed this Wormewood from your fruitfull braine, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.27 | For I had then laid wormwood to my dug, | for I had then laid Worme-wood to my Dug |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.31 | When it did taste the wormwood on the nipple | when it did tast the Worme-wood on the nipple |