| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.189 | mock your own grinning? Quite chop-fallen? Now get | mock your own Ieering? Quite chopfalne? Now get |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iii.59 | such grinning honour as Sir Walter hath. Give me life, | such grinning honour as Sir Walter hath: Giue mee life, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.163 | Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp, | Scoffing his State, and grinning at his Pompe, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.100 | Showing the sun his teeth, grinning at the moon, | Showing the Sun his Teeth; grinning at the Moone |