| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.188 | The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night, | The gray ey'd morne smiles on the frowning night. Checkring the Easterne Cloudes with streaks of light: And fleckled darknesse like a drunkard reeles. From forth daies path. and Titans burning wheeles: Now ere the Sun aduance his burning eye. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.131 | But when he stirs, a tiger; he's grey-eyed, | But when he stirs, a Tiger; he's gray eyd, |