| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.31 | That have a sharper known, well corresponding | That haue a sharper knowne. Well corresponding |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.35 | Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue | Whose edge is sharper then the Sword, whose tongue |
| Henry V | H5 III.v.39 | More sharper than your swords, hie to the field! | More sharper then your Swords, high to the field: |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.285 | How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is | How sharper then a Serpents tooth it is, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.405 | Nor woo in rhyme, like a blind harper's song. | Nor woo in rime like a blind-harpers songue, |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.9 | Finds brotherhood in thee no sharper spur? | Findes brotherhood in thee no sharper spurre? |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.86 | Whose sting is sharper than the sword's; and will not – | Whose sting is sharper then the Swords; and will not |