| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.276 | Thus must I from the smoke into the smother, | Thus must I from the smoake into the smother, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.197 | To smother up his beauty from the world, | To smother vp his Beauty from the world, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.v.20 | To smother up the English in our throngs, | To smother vp the English in our throngs, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.110 | Though ne'er so cunningly you smother it. | Though ne're so cunningly you smother it. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.110 | Smother her spirits up. | Smother her spirits vp. |
| Pericles | Per I.i.107 | What being more known grows worse, to smother it. | What being more knowne, growes worse, to smother it. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.133 | And in the breath of bitter words let's smother | And in the breath of bitter words, let's smother |