| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.i.15 | And make them dread it, to the doers' thrift. | And make them dread it, to the dooers thrift. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.180 | Thrift, thrift, Horatio. The funeral baked meats | Thrift, thrift Horatio: the Funerall Bakt-meats |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.72 | Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou hear? | Where thrift may follow faining? Dost thou heare, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.193 | Are base respects of thrift, but none of love. | Are base respects of Thrift, but none of Loue. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.109 | Seems to flow from him! How, i'th' name of thrift, | Seemes to flow from him? How, i'th'name of Thrift |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.175 | I have a mind presages me such thrift | I haue a minde presages me such thrift, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.47 | On me, my bargains, and my well-won thrift, | On me, my bargaines, and my well-worne thrift, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.87 | And thrift is blessing if men steal it not. | And thrift is blessing if men steale it not. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.39 | I am about thrift. Briefly, I do mean to make love to | I am about thrift) briefely: I doe meane to make loue to |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.79 | French thrift, you rogues – myself and skirted page. | French-thrift, you Rogues, my selfe, and skirted Page. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.122 | That from my first have been inclined to thrift, | That from my first haue beene inclin'd to thrift, |