| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.22 | The pith and marrow of our attribute. | |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.86 | And enterprises of great pitch and moment | And enterprizes of great pith and moment, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.i.23 | Even on the pith of life. Where is he gone? | Euen on the pith of life. Where is he gone? |
| Henry V | H5 III.chorus.21 | Either past or not arrived to pith and puissance. | Eyther past, or not arriu'd to pyth and puissance: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.11 | And pithless arms, like to a withered vine | And pyth-lesse Armes, like to a withered Vine, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.30 | With epithets and accents of the Scot, | With epithites and accents of the Scot: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.13 | I spoke it, tender juvenal, as a congruent epitheton | I spoke it tender Iuuenall, as a congruent apathaton, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.8 | Truly, Master Holofernes, the epithets are | Truely M. Holofernes, the epythithes are |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.15 | A most singular and choice epithet. | A most singular and choise Epithat, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.171 | They will not answer to that epithet. | They will not answer to that Epythite, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.70 | To soften Angelo. And that's my pith of business | To soften Angelo: And that's my pith of businesse |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.61 | Suffer love! A good epithet, I do suffer love | Suffer loue! a good epithite, I do suffer loue |
| Othello | Oth I.i.14 | Horribly stuffed with epithets of war, | Horribly stufft with Epithites of warre, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.83 | For since these arms of mine had seven years' pith | For since these Armes of mine, had seuen yeares pith, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.163 | Perhaps you marked not what's the pith of all. | Perhaps you mark'd not what's the pith of all. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.i.66 | More pleasant, pithy, and effectual, | More pleasant, pithy, and effectuall, |