| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.162 | Of ashy semblance, meagre, pale, and bloodless, | Of ashy semblance, meager, pale, and bloodlesse, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.202 | To senseless images of meagre death. | To senselesse images of meger death, |
| King John | KJ III.i.80 | The meagre cloddy earth to glittering gold. | The meager cloddy earth to glittering gold: |
| King John | KJ III.iv.85 | As dim and meagre as an ague's fit, | As dim and meager as an Agues fitte, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.104 | 'Tween man and man. But thou, thou meagre lead | 'Tweene man and man: but thou, thou meager lead |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.40 | Culling of simples. Meagre were his looks. | Culling of Simples, meager were his lookes, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.27 | He's swarth and meagre, of an eye as heavy | Hee's swarth, and meagre, of an eye as heavy |