| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.ii.37 | Were in his pride or sharpness; if they were, | Were in his pride, or sharpnesse; if they were, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.iii.34 | Thou must not take my former sharpness ill. | Thou must not take my former sharpenesse ill, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.108 | (drawing his sword) Lorraine, behold the sharpness of this steel. | Lorraine behold the sharpnes of this steele: |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.58 | By those that feel their sharpness. | |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.30 | Of all this sprightly sharpness not a smile. | Of all this sprightly sharpenes, not a smile; |