| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.v.23 | So bees with smoke and doves with noisome stench | So Bees with smoake, and Doues with noysome stench, |
| King John | KJ III.iv.26 | Thou odoriferous stench! Sound rottenness! | Thou odoriferous stench: sound rottennesse, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.129 | pit – burning, scalding, stench, consumption! Fie, fie, | pit; burning, scalding, stench, consumption: Fye, fie, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.47 | With stench of our slain lords. O, pity, Duke! | With stench of our slaine Lords. O pitty Duke, |