| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.32.1 | And tapers burned to bedward! | And Tapers burnt to Bedward. |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.5 | Take not away the taper, leave it burning: | Take not away the Taper, leaue it burning: |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.19 | Perfumes the chamber thus: the flame o'th' taper | Perfumes the Chamber thus: the Flame o'th'Taper |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.17.3 | a taper burning in her hand, with Sir John Stanley, | a Taper burning in her hand, with |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.7 | Get me a taper in my study, Lucius; | Get me a Tapor in my Study, Lucius: |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.35 | The taper burneth in your closet, sir. | The Taper burneth in your Closet, Sir: |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.156 | Enter Boy (Lucius) with wine and tapers | Enter Boy with Wine, and Tapers. |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.162 | Now sit we close about this taper here, | Now sit we close about this Taper heere, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.273 | How ill this taper burns! Ha! who comes here? | How ill this Taper burnes. Ha! Who comes heere? |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.147 | But like a fading taper, dim and dead? | But like a fading taper dym and dead. |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.173 | And in the stead of tapers on his tomb | And in the stead of tapers on his tombe, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.14 | Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light | Vnto the Raine-bow; or with Taper-light |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.267 | Tapers they are, with your sweet breaths puffed out. | Tapers they are, with your sweete breathes puft out. |
| Macbeth | Mac V.i.18 | Enter Lady Macbeth with a taper | Enter Lady, with a Taper. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.49 | With rounds of waxen tapers on their heads, | With rounds of waxen Tapers on their heads, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.61.1 | And burn him with their tapers. | And burne him with their Tapers. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.37.3 | boys as Fairies. They carry tapers | |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.89 | They burn him with their tapers | |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.164 | And for night-tapers crop their waxen thighs | And for night-tapers crop their waxen thighes, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iii.1.2 | four with tapers, all wearing mourning | foure with Tapers. |
| Othello | Oth I.i.142 | Give me a taper; call up all my people! | Giue me a Taper: call vp all my people, |
| Othello | Oth I.i.167 | Past thought! – What said she to you? – Get more tapers. | Past thought:) what said she to you? Get moe Tapers: |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.I.16 | Waste it for you like taper-light. | Waste it for you, like Taper light. |
| Pericles | Per III.i.65 | Bid Nestor bring me spices, ink and paper, | Bid Nestor bring me Spices, Incke, and Taper, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.223 | My inch of taper will be burnt and done, | My inch of Taper, will be burnt, and done, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.327 | And tapers burn so bright, and everything | And Tapers burne so bright, and euery thing |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.228 | Which like a taper in some monument | Which like a Taper in some Monument, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.88 | Now, by the burning tapers of the sky | Now by the burning Tapers of the skie, |