| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.ii.50 | So in approof lives not his epitaph | So in approofe liues not his Epitaph, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.52 | And hath as oft a sland'rous epitaph | And hath as oft a sland'rous Epitaph, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.523 | After your death you were better have a bad epitaph | After your death, you were better haue a bad Epitaph, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.143 | not thinking on, with the hobby-horse, whose epitaph | not thinking on, with the Hoby-horsse, whose Epitaph |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.100 | But not remembered in thy epitaph. | But not remembred in thy Epitaph. |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.234 | Not worshipped with a waxen epitaph. | Not worshipt with a waxen Epitaph. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.53 | Why, then his epitaph is lasting praise. | Why then his Ephitaph, is lasting prayse. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.51 | epitaph on the death of the deer? And, to humour the | Epytaph on the death of the Deare, and to humour the |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.118 | Than to live still, and write mine epitaph. | Then to liue still, and write mine Epitaph. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.271 | Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb | Hang her an epitaph vpon her toomb, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iii.3 | (reading from a scroll) | Epitaph. |
| Pericles | Per IV.iv.32 | The epitaph is for Marina writ | The Epitaph is for Marina writ, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.381 | Thy grave-stone daily. Make thine epitaph, | Thy graue stone dayly, make thine Epitaph, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.183 | Why, I was writing of my epitaph; | Why I was writing of my Epitaph, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.70.1 | (reading the epitaph) | reades the Epitaph. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.285.1 | And soldiers sing my epitaph. | And Souldiers sing my Epitaph. |