| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.210 | Of Phoebus' burning kisses. Such a pother | Of Phoebus burning Kisses: such a poother, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.i.15.1 | Of burning Rome. | Of burning Rome. |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.5 | Take not away the taper, leave it burning: | Take not away the Taper, leaue it burning: |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.515 | Would have made milch the burning eyes of heaven | Would haue made milche the Burning eyes of Heauen, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.278 | Singeing his pate against the burning zone, | Sindging his pate against the burning Zone, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.13 | Of burning cressets, and at my birth | Of burning Cressets: and at my Birth, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.27 | Knight of the Burning Lamp. | Knight of the burning Lampe. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.32 | that lived in purple: for there he is in his robes, burning, | that liued in Purple; for there he is in his Robes burning, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.33 | burning. If thou wert any way given to virtue, I would | burning. If thou wert any way giuen to vertue, I would |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.200 | The land is burning, Percy stands on high, | The Land is burning, Percie stands on hye, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.56 | Have brought ourselves into a burning fever, | Haue brought our selues into a burning Feuer, |
| Henry V | H5 II.i.113 | to Sir John. Ah, poor heart! he is so shaked of a burning | to sir Iohn: A poore heart, hee is so shak'd of a burning |
| Henry V | H5 II.iii.38 | Bardolph's nose, and 'a said it was a black soul burning in | Bardolphs Nose, and a said it was a blacke Soule burning in |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.26.2 | burning | burning. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.28 | But burning fatal to the Talbotites. | But burning fatall to the Talbonites. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.30 | The burning torch in yonder turret stands. | The burning Torch in yonder Turret stands. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.38 | Descend to darkness and the burning lake! | Discend to Darknesse, and the burning Lake: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.17.3 | a taper burning in her hand, with Sir John Stanley, | a Taper burning in her hand, with |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.118 | His father's acts, commenced in burning Troy! | His Fathers Acts, commenc'd in burning Troy. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.13 | Thy burning car never had scorched the earth! | Thy burning Carre neuer had scorch'd the earth. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.ii.57 | Cornfields and vineyards burning like an oven; | Corne fieldes and vineyards burning like an ouen, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.7 | Masking, as 'twere, the beauteous burning sun, | Masking as twere the beautious burning Sunne, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.174 | An hundred fifty towers shall burning blaze, | an hundred fiftie towers shall burning blaze, |
| King John | KJ IV.i.108 | There is no malice in this burning coal; | There is no malice in this burning cole, |
| King John | KJ V.ii.53 | Figured quite o'er with burning meteors. | Figur'd quite ore with burning Meteors. |
| King John | KJ V.iv.34 | Already smokes about the burning crest | Already smoakes about the burning Crest |
| King John | KJ V.vii.8 | It would allay the burning quality | It would allay the burning qualitie |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.15 | To have a thousand with red burning spits | To haue a thousand with red burning spits |
| King Lear | KL IV.iii.46 | His mind so venomously that burning shame | |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.129 | pit – burning, scalding, stench, consumption! Fie, fie, | pit; burning, scalding, stench, consumption: Fye, fie, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iii.6.1 | Of burning youth. | Of burning youth. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.291 | Be sometime honoured for his burning throne. | Be sometime honour'd, for his burning throne. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.89 | That light we see is burning in my hall; | That light we see is burning in my hall: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.110 | With liver burning hot. Prevent. Or go thou | With liuer, burning hot: preuent: / Or goe thou |
| Othello | Oth II.i.14 | Seems to cast water on the burning Bear | Seemes to cast water on the burning Beare, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.130 | She's like a liar gone to burning hell: | She's like a Liar gone to burning hell, |
| Pericles | Per II.ii.32 | A burning torch that's turned upside down. | A burning Torch that's turned vpside downe; |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.III.5 | The cat, with eyne of burning coal, | The Catte with eyne of burning cole, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.ii.45 | Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning. | Tut man, one fire burnes out anothers burning, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.188 | The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night, | The gray ey'd morne smiles on the frowning night. Checkring the Easterne Cloudes with streaks of light: And fleckled darknesse like a drunkard reeles. From forth daies path. and Titans burning wheeles: Now ere the Sun aduance his burning eye. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.1 | Now, ere the sun advance his burning eye | The gray ey'd morne smiles on the frowning night, / Checkring the Easterne Cloudes with streaks of light: / And fleckled darknesse like a drunkard reeles, / From forth daies path, and Titans burning wheeles: / Now ere the Sun aduance his burning eye, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.69 | Or brought a faggot to bright-burning Troy? | Or brought a faggot to bright burning Troy? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.88 | Now, by the burning tapers of the sky | Now by the burning Tapers of the skie, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.44 | I'll dive into the burning lake below | Ile diue into the burning Lake below, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.43 | And here's the base fruit of her burning lust. | And heere's the Base Fruit of his burning lust. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.82 | The story of that baleful burning night | The story of that balefull burning night, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.198 | wars and lechery; nothing else holds fashion! A burning | warres and lechery, nothing else holds fashion. A burning |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.iii.78 | Thus have I shunned the fire for fear of burning, | Thus haue I shund the fire, for feare of burning, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.1.1 | Music. Enter Hymen with a torch burning; a boy in | Enter Hymen with a Torch burning: a Boy, in |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.31 | have i'th' tother place, such burning, frying, boiling, | have i'th / Thother place, such burning, frying, boyling, |