| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iii.39 | The thrifty hire I saved under your father, | The thriftie hire I saued vnder your Father, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.176 | For they are thrifty honest men, and such | For they are thrifty honest men, and such |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.i.38 | But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines | But like a thrifty goddesse, she determines |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.v.53 | A proverb never stale in thrifty mind. | A prouerbe neuer stale in thriftie minde. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.52 | oblique memorial of cuckolds, a thrifty shoeing-horn | oblique memoriall of Cuckolds, a thrifty shooing-horne |