| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.122 | If ye pinch me like a pasty I can say no more. | If ye pinch me like a Pasty, I can say no more. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.6 | As they pinch one another by the | As they pinch one another by the |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.294 | The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, | The stroke of death is as a Louers pinch, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.201 | They'll suck our breath, or pinch us black and blue. | They'll sucke our breath, or pinch vs blacke and blew. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.38.1 | Enter Adriana, Luciana, the Courtesan, and a schoolmaster called Pinch | Enter Adriana, Luciana, Courtizan, and a Schoole-master, call'd Pinch |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.45 | Good Doctor Pinch, you are a conjurer. | Good Doctor Pinch, you are a Coniurer, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.51 | He strikes Pinch | |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.128.1 | Exeunt Pinch and his assistants carrying off | Exeunt. Manet Offic. Adri. Luci. Courtizan |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.238 | They brought one Pinch, a hungry, lean-faced villain, | They brought one Pinch, a hungry leane-fac'd Villaine; |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.61.2 | There cannot be a pinch in death | There cannot be a pinch in death |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.184 | Pinch wanton on your cheek, call you his mouse, | Pinch Wanton on your cheeke, call you his Mouse, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.226 | Save how to gall and pinch this Bolingbroke. | Saue how to gall and pinch this Bullingbrooke, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.30 | When thou dost pinch thy bearer, thou dost sit | When thou do'st pinch thy Bearer, thou do'st sit |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.ii.49 | Not rascal-like to fall down with a pinch, | Not Rascall-like to fall downe with a pinch, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.206 | Necessity's sharp pinch! Return with her? | Necessities sharpe pinch. Returne with her? |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.56 | And, fairy-like, to pinch the unclean knight, | And Fairy-like to pinch the vncleane Knight; |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.60 | Let the supposed fairies pinch him sound | Let the supposed Fairies pinch him, sound, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.vi.44 | To pinch her by the hand, and, on that token, | To pinch her by the hand, and on that token, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.45 | There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry. | There pinch the Maids as blew as Bill-berry, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.54 | Pinch them, arms, legs, backs, shoulders, sides, and shins. | Pinch them armes, legs, backes, shoulders, sides, & shins. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.92 | And, as you trip, still pinch him to your time. | And as you trip, still pinch him to your time. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.99 | Pinch him, fairies, mutually, | Pinch him (Fairies) mutually: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.100 | Pinch him for his villainy. | Pinch him for his villanie. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.101 | Pinch him, and burn him, and turn him about, | Pinch him, and burne him, and turne him about, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.103.1 | During this song they pinch Falstaff; and Doctor | |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.329 | As thick as honey-comb, each pinch more stinging | As thicke as hony-combe, each pinch more stinging |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.4 | And yet I needs must curse. But they'll nor pinch, | And yet I needes must curse. But they'll nor pinch, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.55 | And to say true, I stole it. Do I pinch you? | And to say true, I stole it; doe I pinch you? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.133 | Their lives but pinch 'em; let it here be done. | Their lives but pinch 'em; Let it here be done: |