| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.51 | No more but plain and bluntly ‘ To the King?’ | No more but plaine and bluntly? (To the King.) |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.33 | tale in telling it, and deliver a plain message bluntly. | tale in telling it, and deliuer a plaine message bluntly: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iii.45 | Good or bad news, that thou com'st in so bluntly? | Good or bad newes, that thou com'st in so bluntly? |