| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.207 | Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, | Stood pretty Dimpled Boyes, like smiling Cupids, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.viii.17 | O infinite virtue, com'st thou smiling from | Oh infinite Vertue, comm'st thou smiling from |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.8 | That both our powers, with smiling fronts encountering, | That both our powers, with smiling Fronts encountring, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.52 | A smiling with a sigh; as if the sigh | A smiling, with a sigh; as if the sighe |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.210 | Thus smiling, as some fly had tickled slumber, | Thus smiling, as some Fly had tickled slumber, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.124 | Sits smiling to my heart; in grace whereof | Sits smiling to my heart; in grace whereof, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.106 | O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain! | Oh Villaine, Villaine, smiling damned Villaine! |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.309 | not me – nor woman neither, though by your smiling | not me; no, nor Woman neither; though by your smiling |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.25 | By smiling pickthanks and base newsmongers, | By smiling Pick-thankes, and base Newes-mongers; |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.109 | Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp | Stood smiling, to behold his Lyons Whelpe |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.20 | Thou smiling while he knit his angry brows; | Thou smiling, while he knit his angry browes. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.203.2 | throng after him, smiling and whispering | throng after him smiling, and whispering. |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.79 | Came smiling, and did bathe their hands in it. | Came smiling, & did bathe their hands in it: |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.86 | In which so many smiling Romans bathed, | In which so many smiling Romans bath'd, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.101 | My liege, the Countess with a smiling cheer | My liege, the Countesse with a smiling cheere. |
| King John | KJ III.i.246 | Of smiling peace to march a bloody host, | Of smiling peace to march a bloody hoast, |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.71 | Who wears no honesty. Such smiling rogues as these, | Who weares no honesty: such smiling rogues as these, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.75 | me to ridiculous smiling! O, pardon me, my stars! | me to rediculous smyling: O pardon me my stars, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.740 | Forbid the smiling courtesy of love | Forbid the smiling curtesie of Loue: |
| Macbeth | Mac I.ii.14 | And fortune on his damned quarrel smiling | And Fortune on his damned Quarry smiling, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vii.56 | I would, while it was smiling in my face | I would, while it was smyling in my Face, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.97 | Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, | Is like a villaine with a smiling cheeke, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.156 | And you sat smiling at his cruel prey. | And yet sat smiling at his cruell prey. |
| Pericles | Per V.i.138 | Like Patience gazing on kings' graves and smiling | like patience, gazing on Kings graues, and smiling |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.10 | So weeping, smiling, greet I thee, my earth, | So weeping, smiling, greet I thee my Earth, |
| Richard III | R3 V.v.34 | With smiling plenty, and fair prosperous days! | With smiling Plenty, and faire Prosperous dayes. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.94 | Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites, | Most smiling, smooth, detested Parasites, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.123 | smiling becomes him better than any man in all | smyling becomes him better then any man in all |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.114 | Smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed? | Smiling at greefe. Was not this loue indeede? |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.168 | my love, let it appear in thy smiling, thy smiles | my loue, let it appeare in thy smiling, thy smiles |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.335 | Bade me come smiling and cross-gartered to you, | Bad me come smiling, and crosse-garter'd to you, |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.347 | First told me thou wast mad; then, camest in smiling, | First told me thou wast mad; then cam'st in smiling, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.14 | Has this young prince! Here love himself sits smiling. | Has this yong Prince? Here Love himselfe sits smyling, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.4 | Within this half-hour she came smiling to me, | within this / Halfe houre she came smiling to me, |