| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.35 | The strong-winged Mercury should fetch thee up | The strong wing'd Mercury should fetch thee vp, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.59 | A station like the herald Mercury | A Station, like the Herald Mercurie |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.106 | Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury, | Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.174 | Be Mercury, set feathers to thy heels, | Be Mercurie, set feathers to thy heeles, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.919 | The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs | The Words of Mercurie, / Are harsh after the songs |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.90 | And that a winged Mercury did bear. | And that a winged Mercurie did beare: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iii.55 | Jove's Mercury, and herald for a king! | Ioues Mercury, and Herald for a King: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.65 | Apollo, Pallas, Jove or Mercury | Appollo, Pallas, Ioue, or Mercury, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.56 | Here, boy, ‘ To Pallas.’ Here, ‘ To Mercury.’ | Heere Boy to Pallas, heere to Mercury, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.14 | See here's ‘ To Jove,’ and this ‘ To Mercury,’ | See, heeres to Ioue, and this to Mercury, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.45 | And fly like chidden Mercury from Jove, | And flye like chidden Mercurie from Ioue, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.11 | thou art Jove, the king of gods; and Mercury, lose all | thou art Ioue the King of gods: and Mercury, loose all |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.92 | Now Mercury endue thee with leasing, for thou | Now Mercury indue thee with leasing, for thou |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.25 | am, littered under Mercury, was likewise a snapper-up | am) lytter'd vnder Mercurie, was likewise a snapper-vp |