| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.156 | The multitudinous tongue, let them not lick | The Multitudinous Tongue, let them not licke |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.70 | No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, | No, let the Candied tongue, like absurd pompe, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.13 | Whose hand is that the forest bear doth lick? | Whose hand is that the Forrest Beare doth licke? |
| King Lear | KL IV.ii.42 | Whose reverence even the head-lugged bear would lick, | |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.ii.4 | they can lick their fingers. | they can licke their fingers. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.ii.6 | Marry, sir, 'tis an ill cook that cannot lick | Marrie sir, 'tis an ill Cooke that cannot licke |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.ii.7 | his own fingers. Therefore he that cannot lick his fingers | his owne fingers: therefore he that cannot licke his fingers |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.22 | How does thy honour? Let me lick thy shoe. | How does thy honour? Let me licke thy shooe: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.535 | And may diseases lick up their false bloods! | And may Diseases licke vp their false bloods, |