| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.55 | Ay tailor, sir. A stone-cutter or a painter could not | A Taylor Sir, a Stone-cutter, or a Painter, could not |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.641 | He's a god or a painter; for he makes faces. | He's a God or a Painter, for he makes faces. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.121 | The painter plays the spider, and hath woven | The Painter plaies the Spider, and hath wouen |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.ii.41 | and the painter with his nets. But I am sent to find those | and the Painter with his Nets. But I am sent to find those |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.1.1.1 | Enter Poet and Painter, Jeweller and Merchant, at | Enter Poet, Painter, Ieweller, Merchant, and Mercer, at |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.158 | Go not away. (To Painter) What have you there, my friend? | Go not away. What haue you there, my Friend? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.200 | He wrought better that made the painter, | He wrought better that made the Painter, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.353 | Yonder comes a poet and a painter. The | Yonder comes a Poet and a Painter: / The |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.1 | Enter Poet and Painter | Enter Poet, and Painter. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.107 | (To the Painter) If, where thou art, two villains shall not be, | If where thou art, two Villaines shall not be, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.111 | (To the Painter) You have work for me. There's payment. Hence! | You haue worke for me; there's payment, hence, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.184 | And yet the painter flattered her a little, | And yet the Painter flatter'd her a little, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.122 | The ground-piece of some painter, I would buy you | The ground-peece of some Painter, I would buy you |