| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.23 | A table full of welcome makes scarce one dainty dish. | A table full of welcome, makes scarce one dainty dish. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.166 | Your laboursome and dainty trims, wherein | Your laboursome and dainty Trimmes, wherein |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.196 | Of dainty and such picking grievances, | Of daintie, and such picking Grieuances: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.38 | No shape but his can please your dainty eye. | No shape but his can please your dainty eye. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iv.94 | By heaven, she is a dainty one. Sweetheart, | By Heauen she is a dainty one. Sweet heart, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.26 | Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits | Fat paunches haue leane pates: and dainty bits, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.145 | Armado to th' one side – O, a most dainty man! | Armathor ath to the side, O a most dainty man. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.277 | Her feet were much too dainty for such tread. | Her feet were much too dainty for such tread. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.315 | Love's tongue proves dainty Bacchus gross in taste. | Loues tongue proues dainty, Bachus grosse in taste, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.141 | And let us not be dainty of leave-taking, | And let vs not be daintie of leaue-taking, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.273 | O dainty duck, O dear! | O dainty Ducke: O Deere! |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.20 | Will now deny to dance? She that makes dainty, | Will now deny to dance? She that makes dainty, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.341 | Basins and ewers to lave her dainty hands – | Basons and ewers to laue her dainty hands: |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.95 | Why, that's my dainty Ariel! I shall miss thee, | Why that's my dainty Ariell: I shall misse |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.117 | Single you thither then this dainty doe, | Single you thither then this dainty Doe, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.ii.26 | But hope to pluck a dainty doe to ground. | But hope to plucke a dainty Doe to ground. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.145 | Grows dainty of his worth, and in his tent | Growes dainty of his worth, and in his Tent |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.83 | And gives memorial dainty kisses to it | And giues memoriall daintie kisses to it; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.viii.20 | Pleased with this dainty bait, thus goes to bed. | Pleas'd with this dainty bed; thus goes to bed. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.184.2 | Dainty, madam. | Deinty Madam. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.ii.40 | But will the dainty dominie, the schoolmaster, | But will the dainty Domine, the Schoolemaster |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.73 | There's a dainty madwoman, master, | Ther's a dainty mad woman Mr. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.113 | And, dainty Duke, whose doughty dismal fame | And daintie Duke, whose doughtie dismall fame |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.315 | My dainty duck, my dear-a? | My dainty Ducke, my deere-a? |