| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.406 | doth defile, so doth the company thou keepest. For, Harry, | doth defile; so doth the companie thou keepest: for Harry, |
| Henry V | H5 III.iii.35 | Defile the locks of your shrill-shrieking daughters; | Desire the Locks of your shrill-shriking Daughters: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.191 | As, like to pitch, defile nobility, | As like to Pytch, defile Nobilitie; |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.110 | When false opinion, whose wrong thoughts defile thee, | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.4 | that defiles. ‘ Defile ’ – a foul word! Well, set thee | that defiles; defile, a foule word: Well, set thee |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.91 | And his soft couch defile. | And his soft couch defile. |