| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.193 | Even with his pestilent scythe. | Euen with his pestilent Sythe. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.302 | appeareth nothing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation | appeares no other thing to mee, then a foule and pestilent congregation |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.92 | With pestilent speeches of his father's death, | With pestilent Speeches of his Fathers death, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.49 | Most pestilent to th' hearing, and to bear 'em | Most pestilent to th'hearing, and to beare 'em, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.113 | A pestilent gall to me! | A pestilent gall to me. |
| Othello | Oth II.i.240 | look after. A pestilent complete knave; and the woman | looke after. A pestilent compleat knaue, and the woman |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.142 | What a pestilent knave is this same! | What a pestilent knaue is this same? |