| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.121 | As reek o'th' rotten fens, whose loves I prize | As reeke a'th' rotten Fennes: whose Loues I prize, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.iii.2 | violence of action hath made you reek as a sacrifice: | Violence of Action hath made you reek as a Sacrifice: |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.208 | How under my oppression I did reek | How vnder my oppression I did reeke |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.158 | Now, whilst your purpled hands do reek and smoke, | Now, whil'st your purpled hands do reeke and smoake, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.138 | Saw sighs reek from you, noted well your passion. | Saw sighes reeke from you, noted well your passion. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.74 | Counter-gate, which is as hateful to me as the reek of a | Counter-gate, which is as hatefull to me, as the reeke of a |