| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iii.10 | Where youth and cost a witless bravery keeps. | Where youth, and cost, witlesse brauery keepes. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.258 | A witty mother, witless else her son. | A witty mother, witlesse else her sonne. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.86 | Like witless antics one another meet, | Like witlesse Antickes one another meete, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.iii.5 | To be his whore is witless. Out upon't! | To be his whore, is witles; Out upon't; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK prologue.19 | From me the witless chaff of such a writer | From me the witles chaffe of such a wrighter |