| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.186 | The empire of the sea. Our slippery people, | The Empire of the Sea. Our slippery people, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.iv.12 | O world, thy slippery turns! Friends now fast sworn, | Oh World, thy slippery turnes! Friends now fast sworn, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.34 | As slippery as the Gordian knot was hard. | As slippery as the Gordian-knot was hard. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.24 | With deafing clamour in the slippery clouds, | With deaff'ning Clamors in the slipp'ry Clouds, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.191 | My credit now stands on such slippery ground, | My credit now stands on such slippery ground, |
| King John | KJ III.iv.137 | And he that stands upon a slippery place | And he that stands vpon a slipp'ry place, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.84 | Which when they fall, as being slippery standers, | Which when they fall, as being slippery standers; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.85 | The love that leaned on them, as slippery too, | The loue that leand on them as slippery too, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.273 | My wife is slippery? If thou wilt confess – | My Wife is slipperie? If thou wilt confesse, |