| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| 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 IV.v.52 | thy trencher, Hence! | thy trencher: Hence. |
| 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, |
| 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? |
| 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, |
| 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, |