| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.218 | And shrive you of a thousand idle pranks. – | And shriue you of a thousand idle prankes: |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.23 | For they do prank them in authority | For they doe pranke them in Authoritie, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.2 | Tell him his pranks have been too broad to bear with, | Tell him his prankes haue been too broad to beare with, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.15 | Thy lewd, pestiferous, and dissentious pranks, | Thy lewd, pestiferous, and dissentious prancks, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.234 | Of other your new pranks. I do beseech you | Of other your new prankes. I do beseech you |
| Othello | Oth II.i.140 | But does foul pranks which fair and wise ones do. | But do's foule pranks, which faire, and wise-ones do. |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.200 | In Venice they do let God see the pranks | In Venice, they do let Heauen see the prankes |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.85 | That nature pranks her in, attracts my soul. | That nature prankes her in, attracts my soule. |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.i.54 | And hear thou there how many fruitless pranks | And heare thou there how many fruitlesse prankes |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.79 | become the pranks and friskins of her madness. Sing | become the prankes / And friskins of her madnes; Sing |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.10 | Most goddess-like pranked up. But that our feasts | Most Goddesse-like prank'd vp: But that our Feasts |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.695 | his son's pranks too; who, I may say, is no honest man, | his Sonnes prancks too; who, I may say, is no honest man, |