| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.228.1 | To th' people, beg their stinking breaths. | To th' People, begge their stinking Breaths. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.133 | Your stinking greasy caps in hooting | Your stinking, greasie Caps, in hooting |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.110 | That's fed with stinking tallow: it were fit | That's fed with stinking Tallow: it were fit |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.353 | cheap as stinking mackerel. | cheape as stinking Mackrell. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.76 | Stinking and flyblown lies here at our feet. | Stinking and fly-blowne lyes heere at our feete. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vii.9 | Nay, John, it will be stinking | Nay Iohn, it wil be stinking |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.244 | a deal of stinking breath because Caesar refused the | a deale of stinking breath, because Casar refus'd the |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.69 | stinking. Let go thy hold when a great wheel runs down | stinking; let go thy hold, when a great wheele runs downe |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.103 | be stopped in, like a strong distillation, with stinking | be stopt in like a strong distillation with stinking |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.3 | The sky it seems would pour down stinking pitch, | The skye it seemes would powre down stinking pitch, |