| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iv.24 | Defiles the pitchy night; so lust doth play | Defiles the pitchy night, so lust doth play |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.298 | He knows himself my bed he hath defiled, | He knowes himselfe my bed he hath defil'd, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.406 | doth defile, so doth the company thou keepest. For, Harry, | doth defile; so doth the companie thou keepest: for Harry, |
| Henry V | H5 III.iii.35 | Defile the locks of your shrill-shrieking daughters; | Desire the Locks of your shrill-shriking Daughters: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.191 | As, like to pitch, defile nobility, | As like to Pytch, defile Nobilitie; |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.110 | When false opinion, whose wrong thoughts defile thee, | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.4 | that defiles. ‘ Defile ’ – a foul word! Well, set thee | that defiles; defile, a foule word: Well, set thee |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.91 | And his soft couch defile. | And his soft couch defile. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.410 | I'll whip thee with a rod. He is defiled | Ile whip thee with a rod. He is defil'd |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.56 | they that touch pitch will be defiled. The most peaceable | they that touch pitch will be defil'd: the most peaceable |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.63 | One Hero died defiled, but I do live, | One Hero died, but I doe liue, |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.37 | As houses are defiled for want of use, | As houses are defil'de for want of vse, |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.62 | Hath held his current and defiled himself – | Hath had his current, and defil'd himselfe. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.228 | Ay, defiled land, my lord. | I, defil'd Land, my Lord. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.384 | 'Twixt natural son and sire, thou bright defiler | Twixt naturall Sunne and fire: thou bright defiler |