| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.v.41 | This orient pearl. His speech sticks in my heart. | This Orient Pearle. His speech stickes in my heart. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.46.1 | Rich pearls upon thee. | Rich Pearles vpon thee. |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.59 | dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house, as your pearl in | dwels like a miser sir, in a poore house, as your Pearle in |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.276 | Stay, give me drink. Hamlet, this pearl is thine. | Stay, giue me drinke. / Hamlet, this Pearle is thine, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.48 | – your brooches, pearls, and ouches – for to | Your Brooches, Pearles, and Owches: For to |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.255 | The intertissued robe of gold and pearl, | The enter-tissued Robe of Gold and Pearle, |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.37.21 | adorned with pearl, crowned. On each side her the | adorned with Pearle, Crowned. On each side her, the |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.67 | Exceeding store of treasure, pearl, and coin. | Exceding store of treasure, perle, and coyne, |
| King John | KJ II.i.169 | Draws those heaven-moving pearls from his poor eyes, | Drawes those heauen-mouing pearles frõ his poor eies, |
| King Lear | KL IV.iii.22 | As pearls from diamonds dropped. In brief, | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.87 | in a turf of earth, fire enough for a flint, pearl | in a turph of Earth, Fire enough for a Flint, Pearle |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.53 | This, and these pearls, to me sent Longaville. | This, and these Pearls, to me sent Longauile. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.458 | What! Will you have me, or your pearl again? | What? Will you haue me, or your Pearle againe? |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.95 | I see thee compassed with thy kingdom's pearl | I see thee compast with thy Kingdomes Pearle, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.145 | Whether those pearls of praise be his or no, | Whether those peales of praise be his or no. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.71 | Like sapphire, pearl, and rich embroidery, | Like Saphire-pearle, and rich embroiderie, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.211 | Decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass – | Decking with liquid pearle, the bladed grasse |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.15 | And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear. | And hang a pearle in euery cowslips eare. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.53 | Was wont to swell, like round and orient pearls, | Was wont to swell like round and orient pearles; |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.19 | with pearls, down-sleeves, side-sleeves, and skirts, round | with pearles, downe sleeues, side sleeues, and skirts, round |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.343 | Like the base Indian threw a pearl away | (Like the base Iudean) threw a Pearle away |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.26 | Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, | Wedges of Gold, great Anchors, heapes of Pearle, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.322 | Shall come again, transformed to orient pearl, | Shall come againe, transform'd to Orient Pearle, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.41 | Their harness studded all with gold and pearl. | Their harnesse studded all with Gold and Pearle. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.346 | Fine linen, Turkey cushions bossed with pearl, | Fine Linnen, Turky cushions bost with pearle, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.i.66 | what 'cerns it you if I wear pearl and gold? I thank my | what cernes it you, if I weare Pearle and gold: I thank my |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.399 | Those are pearls that were his eyes; | Those are pearles that were his eies, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.19 | I will be bright and shine in pearl and gold | I will be bright and shine in Pearle and Gold, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.42 | This is the pearl that pleased your Empress' eye, | This is the Pearle that pleas'd your Empresse eye, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.102 | Her bed is India; there she lies, a pearl: | Her bed is India, there she lies, a Pearle, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.82 | Is she worth keeping? – Why, she is a pearl | Is she worth keeping? Why she is a Pearle, |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.iii.2 | This pearl she gave me, I do feel't and see't; | This pearle she gaue me, I do feel't, and see't, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.168 | As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, | As twenty Seas, if all their sand were pearle, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.224 | A sea of melting pearl, which some call tears; | A Sea of melting pearle, which some call teares; |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.ii.11 | But pearls are fair; and the old saying is: | But Pearles are faire; and the old saying is, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.ii.12 | Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes. | Blacke men are Pearles, in beauteous Ladies eyes. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.ii.13 | 'Tis true, such pearls as put out ladies' eyes; | 'Tis true, such Pearles as put out Ladies eyes, |