| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.22.1 | Enter Romeo and Balthasar, with a torch, a mattock, | Enter Romeo, and Peter. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.22 | Give me that mattock and the wrenching iron. | Giue me that Mattocke, & the wrenching Iron, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.185 | We took this mattock and this spade from him | We tooke this Mattocke and this Spade from him, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.11 | 'Tis you must dig with mattock and with spade, | 'Tis you must dig with Mattocke, and with Spade, |