| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.12 | Tawny-finned fishes. My bended hook shall pierce | Tawny fine fishes, my bended hooke shall pierce |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.58 | Thus most invectively he pierceth through | Thus most inuectiuely he pierceth through |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.113 | When by and by the din of war 'gan pierce | When by and by the dinne of Warre gan pierce |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iv.20 | He is able to pierce a corslet with his eye, talks like | He is able to pierce a Corslet with his eye: Talkes like |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.153 | It shall as level to your judgement 'pear | It shall as leuell to your Iudgement pierce |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iii.56 | Well, if Percy be alive, I'll pierce him. If he do | If Percy be aliue, Ile pierce him: if he do |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.202 | I come to pierce it, or to give thee mine. | I come to pierce it, or to giue thee mine. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.38 | Her tears will pierce into a marble heart; | Her teares will pierce into a Marble heart: |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.68 | Pierce into that; but I can see his pride | Pierce into that, but I can see his Pride |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.189 | This soldier's words have pierced thy father's heart. | This souldiers words haue perst thy fathers hart. |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.298 | Pierce every sense about thee! – Old fond eyes, | Pierce euerie sense about thee. Old fond eyes, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.342 | How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell; | How farre your eies may pierce I cannot tell; |
| King Lear | KL IV.iii.9 | Did your letters pierce the Queen to any demonstration | |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.168 | Arm it in rags, a pygmy's straw does pierce it. | Arme it in ragges, a Pigmies straw do's pierce it. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.57 | The preyful Princess pierced and pricked a pretty pleasing pricket; | The prayfull Princesse pearst and prickt a prettie pleasing Pricket, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.82 | Master Parson – quasi pierce-one? An if | Master Person, quasi Person? And if |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.83 | one should be pierced, which is the one? | one should be perst, Which is the one? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.748 | Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief; | Honest plain words, best pierce the ears of griefe |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iii.3 | Can pierce a complete bosom. Why I desire thee | Can pierce a compleat bosome: why, I desire thee |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.126 | Of thy sharp envy. Can no prayers pierce thee? | Of thy sharpe enuy. Can no prayers pierce thee? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.67 | With sweetest touches pierce your mistress' ear, | With sweetest tutches pearce your Mistresse eare, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.160 | As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts; | As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.59 | Pierced through the heart with your stern cruelty. | Pierst through the heart with your stearne cruelty: |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.270.1 | Could neither graze nor pierce? | Could neither graze, nor pierce? |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.28 | And it pierces and sharpens the stomach. | And it perces and sharpens the stomacke, |
| Pericles | Per IV.iii.35 | Not worth the time of day. It pierced me through. | not worth the time of day. It pierst me thorow, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.171 | Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear, | Pierc'd to the soule with slanders venom'd speare: |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.126 | That hearing how our plaints and prayers do pierce, | That hearing how our plaints and prayres do pearce, |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.100 | My lord, I dare not. Sir Pierce of Exton, | My Lord I dare not: Sir Pierce of Exton, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.194 | Can curses pierce the clouds and enter heaven? | Can Curses pierce the Clouds, and enter Heauen? |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.125 | Thy woes will make them sharp and pierce like mine. | Thy woes will make them sharpe, And pierce like mine. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.19 | I am too sore empierced with his shaft | I am too sore enpearced with his shaft, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.3 | That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear. | That pier'st the fearefull hollow of thine eare, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.246 | Ambition cannot pierce a wink beyond, | Ambition cannot pierce a winke beyond |
| The Tempest | Tem epilogue.17 | Which pierces so, that it assaults | Which pierces so, that it assaults |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.127 | Shall pierce a jot. There's gold to pay thy soldiers. | Shall pierce a iot. There's Gold to pay thy Souldiers, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.12 | And pierce the inmost centre of the earth. | And pierce the inmost Center of the earth: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.31 | Whose loss hath pierced him deep and scarred his heart; | Whose losse hath pier'st him deepe, and scar'd his heart; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.5 | May pierce the head of the great combatant, | May pierce the head of the great Combatant, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.124 | Such heart-pierced demonstration; but alas, | Such heart peirc'd demonstration; but alas |