| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.120 | Luxuriously picked out. For I am sure, | Luxuriously pickt out. For I am sure, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.41 | Will force him think I have picked the lock, and ta'en | Will force him thinke I haue pick'd the lock, and t'ane |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.179 | one man picked out of ten thousand. | one man pick'd out of two thousand. |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.138 | is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so | is growne so picked, that the toe of the Pesant comes so |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.52 | who picked my pocket? | who pick'd my Pocket? |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.59 | many a hair, and I'll be sworn my pocket was picked. | many a hayre; and Ile be sworne my Pocket was pick'd: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.80 | but I shall have my pocket picked? I have lost a seal-ring | but I shall haue my Pocket pick'd? I haue lost a Seale-Ring |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.97 | arras, and had my pocket picked. This house is turned | Arras, and had my Pocket pickt: this House is turn'd |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.166 | frailty. You confess then, you picked my pocket? | frailty. You confesse then you pickt my Pocket? |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.86 | Picked from the worm-holes of long-vanished days, | Pickt from the worme-holes of long-vanisht dayes, |
| King John | KJ I.i.193 | My picked man of countries: ‘ My dear sir ’ – | My picked man of Countries: my deare sir, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.13 | picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, | picked, too spruce, too affected, too odde, as it were, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.64 | As mice by lions, hath picked out an act, | As Myce, by Lyons) hath pickt out an act, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.48 | Picked from the chaff and ruin of the times | Pickt from the chaffe and ruine of the times, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.120 | made me drunk, and afterward picked my pocket. | |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.22 | hath this Flemish drunkard picked – with the devil's | hath this Flemish drunkard pickt (with / The Deuills |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.100 | Out of this silence yet I picked a welcome, | Out of this silence yet, I pickt a welcome: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.22 | And twice today picked out the dullest scent. | And twice to day pick'd out the dullest sent, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.247 | The strangeness of this business. At picked leisure, | The strangenesse of this businesse, at pickt leisure |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.ii.12 | Like empty purses picked. And his poor self, | Like empty purses pickt; and his poore selfe |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.610 | of lethargy I picked and cut most of their festival | of Lethargie, I pickd and cut most of their Festiuall |