| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.68 | As it were sin to doubt – that love this painting | (As it were sinne to doubt) that loue this painting |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.51 | Whose mother was her painting – hath betrayed him: | (Whose mother was her painting) hath betraid him: |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.107 | Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, | Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.26 | Was to them as a painting. Now this masque | Was to them, as a Painting. Now this Maske |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.30 | Stewed in his haste, half breathless, panting forth | Stew'd in his haste, halfe breathlesse, painting forth |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.19 | the old painting; and keep not too long in one tune, but a | the old painting, and keepe not too long in one tune, but a |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.257 | It mourns that painting and usurping hair | It mournes, that painting vsurping haire |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.261 | For native blood is counted painting now; | For natiue bloud is counted painting now: |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.60 | This is the very painting of your fear. | This is the very painting of your feare: |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.33 | Painting, sir, I have heard say, is a mystery, and | Painting Sir, I haue heard say, is a Misterie; and |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.35 | using painting, do prove my occupation a mystery. But | vsing painting, do proue my Occupation, a Misterie: but |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.131 | reechy painting, sometime like god Bel's priests in the | rechie painting, sometime like god Bels priests in the |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.159 | A piece of painting, which I do beseech | A peece of Painting, which I do beseech |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.160.2 | Painting is welcome. | Painting is welcome. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.161 | The painting is almost the natural man; | The Painting is almost the Naturall man: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.83 | With oily painting. Shall I draw the curtain? | With Oyly Painting: shall I draw the Curtaine. |