| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.122 | If ye pinch me like a pasty I can say no more. | If ye pinch me like a Pasty, I can say no more. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.v.28 | That am with Phoebus' amorous pinches black | That am with Phobus amorous pinches blacke, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.6 | As they pinch one another by the | As they pinch one another by the |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.294 | The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, | The stroke of death is as a Louers pinch, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.201 | They'll suck our breath, or pinch us black and blue. | They'll sucke our breath, or pinch vs blacke and blew. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.38.1 | Enter Adriana, Luciana, the Courtesan, and a schoolmaster called Pinch | Enter Adriana, Luciana, Courtizan, and a Schoole-master, call'd Pinch |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.45 | Good Doctor Pinch, you are a conjurer. | Good Doctor Pinch, you are a Coniurer, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.51 | He strikes Pinch | |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.128.1 | Exeunt Pinch and his assistants carrying off | Exeunt. Manet Offic. Adri. Luci. Courtizan |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.238 | They brought one Pinch, a hungry, lean-faced villain, | They brought one Pinch, a hungry leane-fac'd Villaine; |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.295 | You are not Pinch's patient, are you, sir? | You are not Pinches patient, are you sir? |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.69 | party and party, if you chance to be pinched with the | party and party, if you chaunce to bee pinch'd with the |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.61.2 | There cannot be a pinch in death | There cannot be a pinch in death |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.38 | In this our pinching cave shall we discourse | In this our pinching Caue, shall we discourse |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.184 | Pinch wanton on your cheek, call you his mouse, | Pinch Wanton on your cheeke, call you his Mouse, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.226 | Save how to gall and pinch this Bolingbroke. | Saue how to gall and pinch this Bullingbrooke, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.26 | Is with a kind of colic pinched and vexed | Is with a kinde of Collick pincht and vext, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.233 | one, and the pox pinches the other; and so both the | one, and the pox pinches the other; and so both the |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.30 | When thou dost pinch thy bearer, thou dost sit | When thou do'st pinch thy Bearer, thou do'st sit |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.ii.49 | Not rascal-like to fall down with a pinch, | Not Rascall-like to fall downe with a pinch, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.16 | Who having pinched a few and made them cry, | Who hauing pincht a few, and made them cry, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.1 | Not for that neither. Here's the pang that pinches: | Not for that neither; here's the pang that pinches. |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.206 | Necessity's sharp pinch! Return with her? | Necessities sharpe pinch. Returne with her? |
| King Lear | KL III.i.13 | The lion and the belly-pinched wolf | |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.56 | And, fairy-like, to pinch the unclean knight, | And Fairy-like to pinch the vncleane Knight; |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.60 | Let the supposed fairies pinch him sound | Let the supposed Fairies pinch him, sound, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.vi.44 | To pinch her by the hand, and, on that token, | To pinch her by the hand, and on that token, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.45 | There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry. | There pinch the Maids as blew as Bill-berry, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.54 | Pinch them, arms, legs, backs, shoulders, sides, and shins. | Pinch them armes, legs, backes, shoulders, sides, & shins. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.92 | And, as you trip, still pinch him to your time. | And as you trip, still pinch him to your time. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.99 | Pinch him, fairies, mutually, | Pinch him (Fairies) mutually: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.100 | Pinch him for his villainy. | Pinch him for his villanie. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.101 | Pinch him, and burn him, and turn him about, | Pinch him, and burne him, and turne him about, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.103.1 | During this song they pinch Falstaff; and Doctor | |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.364 | What, have I pinched you, Signor Gremio? | What, haue I pincht you Signior Gremio? |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.328 | All exercise on thee. Thou shalt be pinched | All exercise on thee: thou shalt be pinch'd |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.329 | As thick as honey-comb, each pinch more stinging | As thicke as hony-combe, each pinch more stinging |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.4 | And yet I needs must curse. But they'll nor pinch, | And yet I needes must curse. But they'll nor pinch, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.233 | From toe to crown he'll fill our skins with pinches, | From toe to crowne hee'l fill our skins with pinches, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.261 | With aged cramps, and more pinch-spotted make them | With aged Cramps, & more pinch-spotted make them, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.74 | Thou art pinched for't now, Sebastian. Flesh and blood, | Thou art pinch'd for't now Sebastian. Flesh, and bloud, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.77 | Whose inward pinches therefore are most strong – | (Whose inward pinches therefore are most strong) |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.276.2 | I shall be pinched to death. | I shall be pincht to death. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.152 | And pinched the lily-tincture of her face, | And pinch'd the lilly-tincture of her face, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.55 | And to say true, I stole it. Do I pinch you? | And to say true, I stole it; doe I pinch you? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.133 | Their lives but pinch 'em; let it here be done. | Their lives but pinch 'em; Let it here be done: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.115 | But to be paddling palms and pinching fingers, | But to be padling Palmes, and pinching Fingers, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.51 | Remain a pinched thing; yea, a very trick | Remaine a pinch'd Thing; yea, a very Trick |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.606 | pinched a placket, it was senseless; 'twas nothing to | pinch'd a Placket, it was sence-lesse; 'twas nothing to |