| 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 |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.86 | And enterprises of great pitch and moment | And enterprizes of great pith and moment, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.405 | the name of pitch. This pitch – as ancient writers do report – | the Name of Pitch: this Pitch (as ancient Writers doe report) |
| Henry V | H5 II.iii.46 | Let senses rule. The word is ‘ Pitch and pay!’ | Let Sences rule: The world is, Pitch and pay: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.118 | They pitched in the ground confusedly | They pitched in the ground confusedly, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.ii.2 | Whose pitchy mantle overveiled the earth. | Whose pitchy Mantle ouer-vayl'd the Earth. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.54 | It is of such a spacious lofty pitch, | It is of such a spacious loftie pitch, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.11 | Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch; | Between two Hawks, which flyes the higher pitch, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.103 | shall pitch a field when we are dead. | Shall pitch a Field when we are dead. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.ii.23 | On either hand thee there are squadrons pitched | On either hand thee, there are squadrons pitcht, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.57 | Place barrels of pitch upon the fatal stake, | Place barrelles of pitch vpon the fatall stake, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.6 | And what a pitch she flew above the rest! | And what a pytch she flew aboue the rest: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.12 | And bears his thoughts above his falcon's pitch. | And beares his thoughts aboue his Faulcons Pitch. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.191 | As, like to pitch, defile nobility, | As like to Pytch, defile Nobilitie; |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iv.4 | What! Loss of some pitched battle against Warwick? | What losse of some pitcht battell / Against Warwicke? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.66 | Here pitch our battle; hence we will not budge. | Here pitch our Battaile, hence we will not budge. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.85 | But I will sort a pitchy day for thee; | But I will sort a pitchy day for thee: |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.48.1 | Into what pitch he please. | Into what pitch he please. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.i.73 | Will make him fly an ordinary pitch, | Will make him flye an ordinary pitch, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.87 | Fly it a pitch above the soar of praise. | Fly it a pitch aboue the soare of praise, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.97 | Shall pitch your battles on the lower hand; | Shall pitch your battailes on the lower hand, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.173 | That ever yet thou fought'st in pitched field, | That euer yet thou foughtest in pitched field, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.61 | I'll pitch my tent near to the sandy shore. | Ile pitch my tent neere to the sandy shore. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.194 | With two pitch-balls stuck in her face for eyes; | With two pitch bals stucke in her face for eyes. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.3 | They have pitched a toil; I am toiling in a pitch – pitch | They haue pitcht a Toyle, I am toyling in a pytch, pitch |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.172 | And pitch our evils there? O, fie, fie, fie! | And pitch our euils there? oh fie, fie, fie: |
| 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 |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.350 | So will I turn her virtue into pitch, | So will I turne her vertue into pitch, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.109 | How high a pitch his resolution soars! | How high a pitch his resolution soares: |
| Richard III | R3 II.iv.37 | Pitchers have ears. | Pitchers haue eares. |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.187 | Seduced the pitch and height of his degree | Seduc'd the pitch, and height of his degree, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.1 | Here pitch our tent, even here in Bosworth field. | Here pitch our Tent, euen here in Bosworth field, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.19.2 | Dorset, Herbert, and Blunt. Some of the soldiers pitch | and Dorset. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.21 | I cannot bound a pitch above dull woe. | I cannot bound a pitch aboue dull woe, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.203 | Have I not in a pitched battle heard | Haue I not in a pitched battell heard |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iv.52 | Pitchers have ears, and I have many servants. | Pitchers haue eares, and I haue manie seruants, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.3 | The sky it seems would pour down stinking pitch, | The skye it seemes would powre down stinking pitch, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.5 | Fright me with urchin-shows, pitch me i'th' mire, | Fright me with Vrchyn-shewes, pitch me i'th mire, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.51 | She loved not the savour of tar nor of pitch, | She lou'd not the sauour of Tar nor of Pitch, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.227 | Lie in a pitched field. | Lye in a pitcht field. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.14 | And mount her pitch, whom thou in triumph long | And mount her pitch, whom thou in ttiumph long |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC prologue.14 | The fresh and yet unbruised Greeks do pitch | The fresh and yet vnbruised Greekes do pitch |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.i.12 | Of what validity and pitch soe'er, | Of what validity, and pitch so ere, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.273 | And pitch between her arms to anger thee. | And pitch between her armes to anger thee. |