| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.111 | That sings with piercing; do not touch my lord. | That sings with piercing, do not touch my Lord: |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.81 | against the rich, and provide more piercing | against the rich, and prouide more piercing |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.v.11 | Piercing our Romans. Then, valiant Titus, take | Piercing our Romanes: Then Valiant Titus take |
| Henry V | H5 IV.chorus.11 | Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents | Piercing the Nights dull Eare: and from the Tents, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.70 | Ay, sharp and piercing, to maintain his truth, | I, sharpe and piercing to maintaine his truth, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.41 | So doves do peck the falcon's piercing talons; | So Doues doe peck the Faulcons piercing Tallons, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.ii.17 | Have been as piercing as the midday sun, | Haue beene as piercing as the Mid-day Sunne, |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.iii.76 | For piercing steel and darts envenomed | For piercing Steele, and Darts inuenomed, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.105 | My subject eyes from piercing majesty | My subiect eyes from persing maiestie, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.86 | Piercing a hogshead! A good lustre of conceit | Of persing a Hogshead, a good luster of conceit |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.159 | With piercing steel at bold Mercutio's breast; | With Peircing steele at bold Mercutio's breast, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.176 | And say she uttereth piercing eloquence. | And say she vttereth piercing eloquence: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.34 | Now piercing to my soul. O, thus she stood, | Now piercing to my Soule. Oh, thus she stood, |