| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.199 | We talk with goblins, owls, and sprites. | We talke with Goblins, Owles and Sprights; |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.40 | Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damned, | Be thou a Spirit of health, or Goblin damn'd, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.22 | With, ho! such bugs and goblins in my life, | With hoo, such Bugges and Goblins in my life, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.37.2 | Queen of Fairies, Pistol as Hobgoblin, Anne Page and | |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.41 | Crier Hobgoblin, make the fairy oyes. | Crier Hob-goblyn, make the Fairy Oyes. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.40 | Those that ‘ Hobgoblin’ call you, and ‘ Sweet Puck,’ | Those that Hobgoblin call you, and sweet Pucke, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.399 | Goblin, lead them up and down. | Goblin, lead them vp and downe: |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.259 | Go, charge my goblins that they grind their joints | Goe, charge my Goblins that they grinde their ioynts |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.29 | That mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy's thoughts. – | That mouldeth goblins swift as frensies thoughts. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.26.1 | Of sprites and goblins. | of Sprights, and Goblins. |