| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.141 | than an ape, more giddy in my desires than a monkey; | then an ape, more giddy in my desires, then a monkey: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.208 | No, I am an ape. | No, I am an Ape. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iv.36 | From slaves that apes would beat! Pluto and hell! | From Slaues, that Apes would beate; Pluto and Hell, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.39 | It cannot be i'th' eye: for apes and monkeys, | It cannot be i'th'eye: for Apes, and Monkeys |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.31 | O sleep, thou ape of death, lie dull upon her, | O sleepe, thou Ape of death, lye dull vpon her, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.194 | Is jollity for apes, and grief for boys. | Is iollity for Apes, and greefe for Boyes. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.195 | Let the birds fly, and like the famous ape, | Let the Birds flye, and like the famous Ape |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.ii.17 | King best service in the end. He keeps them, like an ape | King best seruice in the end. He keepes them like an Ape |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.80 | Out, you mad-headed ape! | Out you mad-headed Ape, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.68 | not transformed him ape. | haue not transform'd him Ape. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.211 | Ah, you sweet little rogue, you! Alas, poor ape, | Ah, you sweet little Rogue, you: alas, poore Ape, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.123 | From every region, apes of idleness! | From eu'ry Region, Apes of Idlenesse. |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.141 | on like a butcher, and sit like a jackanapes, never off. | on like a Butcher, and sit like a Iack an Apes, neuer off. |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.41 | You showed your teeth like apes, and fawned like hounds, | You shew'd your teethes like Apes, / And fawn'd like Hounds, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.445 | Is sin and subornation; deck an ape | Is sin and subbornation: Decke an Ape |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.83 | The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee | The Foxe, the Ape, and the Humble-Bee, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.87 | The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.93 | The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.126 | master, the ape his keeper, the tired horse his rider. | master, the Ape his keeper, the tyred Horse his rider: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.325 | This is the ape of form, Monsieur the Nice, | This is the Ape of Forme, Monsieur the nice, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.120 | His glassy essence, like an angry ape | (His glassie Essence) like an angry Ape |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.i.76 | By gar, you are de coward, de Jack dog, John ape. | By-gar, you are de Coward: de Iack dog: Iohn Ape. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.181 | On meddling monkey or on busy ape – | On medling Monkey, or on busie Ape) |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.35 | earnest of the bear-ward, and lead his apes into hell. | earnest of the Berrord, and leade his Apes into hell. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.40 | here's no place for you maids.’ So deliver I up my apes, | heere's no place for you maids, so deliuer I vp my Apes, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.91.1 | Boys, apes, braggarts, Jacks, milksops! | Boyes, apes, braggarts, Iackes, milke-sops. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.194 | He is then a giant to an ape; but then is an ape | He is then a Giant to an Ape, but then is an Ape |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.130 | Because that I am little, like an ape, | Because that I am little, like an Ape, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.i.16 | The ape is dead, and I must conjure him. | The Ape is dead, I must coniure him, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.34 | And for your love to her lead apes in hell. | And for your loue to her, leade Apes in hell. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.9 | Sometime like apes, that mow and chatter at me, | Sometime like Apes, that moe and chatter at me, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.248 | And all be turned to barnacles, or to apes | And all be turn'd to Barnacles, or to Apes |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.43 | Unless we fear that apes can tutor's – to | (Vnlesse we feare that Apes can Tutor's) to |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.98 | her ape: he so near to Hermione hath done Hermione | her Ape: He so neere to Hermione, hath done Hermione, |