| Ham V.i.190 | [Hamlet to Yorick's skull] get you to my lady's table and tell her, let her paint an inch thick |
| JC III.i.63 | [Caesar to all] The skies are painted with unnumbered sparks |
| Sonn.62.14 | [] Painting my age with beauty of thy days |
| TNK II.i.193 | [Emilia to Woman, of a rose = maid] How modestly she blows, and paints the sun / With her chaste blushes [i.e. embellishes the sunlight] |