| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.ii.19 | You barely leave our thorns to prick ourselves, | You barely leaue our thornes to pricke our selues, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.108 | Must find love's prick and Rosalind. | must finde Loues pricke, & Rosalinde. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.99 | Myself by with a needle, that I might prick | My selfe by with a Needle, that I might pricke |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.88 | To prick and sting her. Fare thee well at once. | To pricke and sting her. Fare thee well at once; |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.130 | me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I | me on. But how if Honour pricke me off when I |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.106 | they never prick their finger but they say ‘ There's some | they neuer pricke their finger, but they say, there is som |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.110 | Prick him. | Pricke him. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.133 | Shadow will serve for summer. Prick him, for | Shadow will serue for Summer: pricke him: For |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.141 | Shall I prick him, Sir John? | Shall I pricke him downe, Sir Iohn? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.144 | Prick him no more. | prick him no more. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.150 | Shall I prick him, sir? | Shall I pricke him, sir? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.158 | wrathful dove or most magnanimous mouse. Prick the | wrathfull Doue, or most magnanimous Mouse. Pricke the |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.172 | 'Fore God, a likely fellow! Come, prick Bullcalf | Trust me, a likely Fellow. Come, pricke me Bulcalfe |
| Henry V | H5 II.i.32 | honestly by the prick of their needles but it will be | honestly by the pricke of their Needles, but it will bee |
| Henry V | H5 II.i.55 | prick your guts a little, in good terms, as I may, and | pricke your guts a little in good tearmes, as I may, and |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.49 | Prick not your finger as you pluck it off, | Prick not your finger as you pluck it off, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.34 | And made an evening at the noontide prick. | And made an Euening at the Noone-tide Prick. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.55 | To prick thy finger, though to wound his heart. | To prick thy finger, though to wound his heart. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.13 | What! Can so young a thorn begin to prick? | What? can so young a Thorne begin to prick? |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.171 | Scruple, and prick, on certain speeches uttered | Scruple, and pricke, on certaine Speeches vtter'd |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.124 | To prick us to redress? What other bond | To pricke vs to redresse? What other Bond, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.i.3.2 | Prick him down, Antony. | Pricke him downe Antony. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.133 | Let the mark have a prick in't, to mete at if it may be. | Let the mark haue a pricke in't, to meat at, if it may be. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vii.26 | To prick the sides of my intent but only | To pricke the sides of my intent, but onely |
| Macbeth | Mac V.iii.14 | Go prick thy face and overred thy fear, | Go pricke thy face, and ouer-red thy feare |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.58 | summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not | Sommmer as a Christian is: if you pricke vs doe we not |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.207 | And prick my tender patience to those thoughts | And pricke my tender patience to those thoughts |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.28 | Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down. | Pricke loue for pricking, and you beat loue downe, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.110 | the dial is now upon the prick of noon. | the Dyall is now vpon the pricke of Noone. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iv.25 | O for a prick now, like a nightingale, | O for a pricke now like a Nightingale, |