| KJ III.i.237 | [King Philip to Cardinal Pandulph, of French and English hands] they were besmeared and overstained / With slaughter's pencil |
| LLL V.ii.43 | [Rosaline to Katharine] 'Ware pencils, ho! |
| RJ I.ii.40 | [Servant alone] It is written that ... the fisher [should meddle] with his pencil and the painter with his nets [with bawdy pun] |
| Sonn.101.7 | [needs] no pencil, beauty's truth to lay |