| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.65 | To taint his nobler heart and brain | To taint his Nobler hart & braine, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.85 | Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive | Taint not thy mind; nor let thy Soule contriue |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.183 | Never yet taint with love, I send the King. | Neuer yet taint with loue, I send the King. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.55 | To taint that honour every good tongue blesses, | To taint that honour euery good Tongue blesses; |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.332.1 | I will not taint my mouth with. | I will not taint my mouth with. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.28 | Commotions, uproars, with a general taint | Commotions, vprores, with a generall Taint |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.439 | The freshest summer's day doth soonest taint | The freshest summers day doth soonest taint, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.221 | Fall into taint; which to believe of her | Fall into taint, which to beleeue of her |
| Macbeth | Mac V.iii.3 | I cannot taint with fear. What's the boy Malcolm? | I cannot taint with Feare. What's the Boy Malcolme? |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.268 | That my disports corrupt and taint my business, | That my Disports corrupt, and taint my businesse: |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.160 | But never taint my love. I cannot say ‘ whore ’: | But neuer taynt my Loue. I cannot say Whore, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.374 | In taint of our best man. No, make a lottery, | In taint of our best man. No, make a Lott'ry, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.66 | But wise men, folly-fallen, quite taint their wit. | But wisemens folly falne, quite taint their wit. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.131 | taint. | taint. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.347 | Or any taint of vice whose strong corruption | Or any taint of vice, whose strong corruption |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.355 | Taint the condition of this present hour, | Taint the condition of this present houre, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.9 | No deafing, but to hear; not taint mine eye | No deaffing, but to heare; not taint mine eye |