| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.77 | To give great Charlemain a pen in's hand | To giue great Charlemaine a pen in's hand |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vi.69 | pen down my dilemmas, encourage myself in my certainty, | pen downe my dilemma's, encourage my selfe in my certaintie, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.84.1 | And pen her up. | And pen her vp. |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.26 | So get you gone: if this penetrate, I will consider | So, get you gone: if this pen trate, I will consider |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.171 | is pen, book, and counters; so the acquittance | is Pen, Booke, and Counters; so the Acquittance |
| Henry V | H5 II.iii.16 | nose was as sharp as a pen, and 'a babbled of green | Nose was as sharpe as a Pen, and a Table of greene |
| Henry V | H5 Epil.chorus.1 | Thus far, with rough and all-unable pen, | Thus farre with rough, and all-vnable Pen, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.13 | Verbatim to rehearse the method of my pen. | Verbatim to rehearse the Methode of my Penne. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.66 | I'll call for pen and ink, and write my mind. | Ile call for Pen and Inke, and write my minde: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.101 | Away with him, I say; hang him with his pen and | Away with him I say: Hang him with his Pen and |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.59 | Hast thou pen, ink, and paper ready, Lodowick? | Hast thou pen, inke and paper ready Lodowike, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.66 | To bring thee hither an enchanted pen | To bring thee hither an inchanted pen, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.73 | For so much moving hath a poet's pen | For so much moouing hath a Poets pen: |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.184 | Give me the pen and paper; I will write. | Giue me the pen and paper I will write, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.194 | Use it in fashion of a brazen pen | Vse it in fashion of a brasen pen, |
| King John | KJ V.vii.32 | I am a scribbled form, drawn with a pen | I am a scribled forme drawne with a pen |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.93 | brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' | Brothels, thy hand out of Plackets, thy pen from Lenders |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.237 | draweth from my snow-white pen the ebon-coloured ink | draweth from my snow-white penthe ebon coloured Inke, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.177 | sure I shall turn sonnet. Devise, wit; write, pen; for I | sure I shall turne Sonnet. Deuise Wit, write Pen, for I |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.150 | Marvellous well for the pen. | Marueilous well for the pen. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.322 | Never durst poet touch a pen to write | Neuer durst Poet touch a pen to write, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.237 | For if I do, I'll mar the young clerk's pen. | For if I doe, ile mar the yong Clarks pen. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iv.40 | Anne the jest how my father stole two geese out of a pen, | Anne the iest how my Father stole two Geese out of a Pen, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.15 | The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen | the forms of things / Vnknowne; the Poets pen |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.232 | mine eyes with a ballad-maker's pen and hang me up | mine eyes with a Ballet-makers penne, and hang me vp |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.v.53 | bid him bring his pen and inkhorn to the gaol. | bid him bring his pen and inkehorne to the Gaole: |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.IV.28 | She would with rich and constant pen | She would with rich and constant pen, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.83 | And find delight writ there with beauty's pen. | And find delight, writ there with Beauties pen: |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.326 | Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up. Urchins | Side-stitches, that shall pen thy breath vp, Vrchins |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.74 | Heaven guide thy pen to print thy sorrows plain, | Heauen guide thy pen to print thy sorrowes plaine, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.105 | Give me pen and ink. (Writes) | Giue me pen and inke. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC prologue.24 | Of author's pen or actor's voice, but suited | Of Authors pen, or Actors voyce; but suited |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.204 | Than breath or pen can give expressure to. | Then breath or pen can giue expressure to: |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.47 | in thy ink, though thou write with a goose pen, no | in thy inke, though thou write with a Goose-pen, no |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.13 | Prague that never saw pen and ink very wittily said to | Prage that neuer saw pen and inke, very wittily sayd to |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.81 | my hand, help me to a candle, and pen, ink, and paper. | my hand, helpe me to a Candle, and pen, inke, and paper: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i11.1 | Or a half-moon, made with a pen. | Or a halfe-Moone, made with a Pen.) |