| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.44 | sinister cheek; it was this very sword entrenched it. Say | sinister cheeke; it was this very sword entrench'd it: say |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.117 | Dead Caesar's trencher. Nay, you were a fragment | Dead Casars Trencher: Nay, you were a Fragment |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iv.30.1 | Alarum. The Romans are beat back to their trenches. | Alarum, the Romans are beat back to their Trenches |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iv.42 | As they us to our trenches. Follow's! | As they vs to our Trenches followes. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.12 | I saw our party to their trenches driven, | I saw our party to their Trenches driuen, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.40 | Which told me they had beat you to your trenches? | Which told me they had beate you to your Trenches? |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.52 | thy trencher, Hence! | thy trencher: Hence. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.7 | No more shall trenching war channel her fields, | No more shall trenching Warre channell her fields, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.53 | Of sallies, and retires, of trenches, tents, | Of Sallies, and Retires; Trenches, Tents, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.108 | Yea, but a little charge will trench him here, | Yea, but a little Charge will trench him here, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.9 | How the English, in the suburbs close intrenched, | How the English, in the Suburbs close entrencht, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.v.33 | It will not be. Retire into your trenches. | It will not be, retyre into your Trenches: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.57 | Fed from my trencher, kneeled down at the board, | Fed from my Trencher, kneel'd downe at the boord, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.87 | Whose thousands had entrenched me round about, | Whom you sayd, had intrencht me round about, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.3 | We will entrench ourselves on every side, | We will intrench our selues on euery side, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.133 | The French had cast their trenches like a ring, | The French had cast their trenches like a ring, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.464 | Some mumble-news, some trencher-knight, some Dick, | Some mumble-newes, some trencher-knight, som Dick |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.477 | Holding a trencher, jesting merrily? | Holding a trencher, iesting merrilie? |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.26 | With twenty trenched gashes on his head, | With twenty trenched gashes on his head; |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.48 | As easy mayst thou the intrenchant air | As easie may'st thou the intrenchant Ayre |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.47 | it; he is a very valiant trencher-man, he hath an excellent | it: he's a very valiant Trencher-man, hee hath an excellent |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.2 | to take away? He shift a trencher? He scrape a trencher! | to take away? He shift a Trencher? he scrape a Trencher? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.151 | There, take it to you, trenchers, cups, and all. | There, take it to you, trenchers, cups, and all: |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.179 | Nor scrape trenchering, nor wash dish. | Nor scrape trenchering, nor wash dish, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.124.1 | Than one which holds a trencher. | Then one which holds a Trencher. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.96 | You fools of fortune, trencher-friends, time's flies, | You Fooles of Fortune, Trencher-friends, Times Flyes, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.116 | Make soft thy trenchant sword; for those milk-paps | Make soft thy trenchant Sword: for those Milke pappes |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.23 | Witness these trenches made by grief and care, | Witnesse these Trenches made by griefe and care, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.7 | Trenched in ice, which with an hour's heat | Trenched in ice, which with an houres heate |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.9 | trencher and steals her capon's leg. O, 'tis a foul thing | Trencher, and steales her Capons-leg: O, 'tis a foule thing, |