| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.ii.52 | Leave this faint puling and lament as I do, | Leaue this faint-puling, and lament as I do, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.184 | And then to have a wretched puling fool, | And then to haue a wretched puling foole, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.i.62 | He, like a puling cuckold, would drink up | He like a puling Cuckold, would drinke vp |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.24 | to speak puling, like a beggar at Hallowmas. You were | to speake puling, like a beggar at Hallow-Masse: You were |