| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.5 | Take not away the taper, leave it burning: | Take not away the Taper, leaue it burning: |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.19 | Perfumes the chamber thus: the flame o'th' taper | Perfumes the Chamber thus: the Flame o'th'Taper |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.17.3 | a taper burning in her hand, with Sir John Stanley, | a Taper burning in her hand, with |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.7 | Get me a taper in my study, Lucius; | Get me a Tapor in my Study, Lucius: |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.35 | The taper burneth in your closet, sir. | The Taper burneth in your Closet, Sir: |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.162 | Now sit we close about this taper here, | Now sit we close about this Taper heere, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.273 | How ill this taper burns! Ha! who comes here? | How ill this Taper burnes. Ha! Who comes heere? |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.147 | But like a fading taper, dim and dead? | But like a fading taper dym and dead. |
| Macbeth | Mac V.i.18 | Enter Lady Macbeth with a taper | Enter Lady, with a Taper. |
| Othello | Oth I.i.142 | Give me a taper; call up all my people! | Giue me a Taper: call vp all my people, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.I.16 | Waste it for you like taper-light. | Waste it for you, like Taper light. |
| Pericles | Per III.i.65 | Bid Nestor bring me spices, ink and paper, | Bid Nestor bring me Spices, Incke, and Taper, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.223 | My inch of taper will be burnt and done, | My inch of Taper, will be burnt, and done, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.228 | Which like a taper in some monument | Which like a Taper in some Monument, |