| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.31 | That's not my meaning. But breathe his faults so quaintly | That's not my meaning: but breath his faults so quaintly, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.24 | To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, | To carue out Dialls queintly, point by point, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.iv.6 | 'Tis vile, unless it may be quaintly ordered, | 'Tis vile vnlesse it may be quaintly ordered, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.III.13 | With your fine fancies quaintly eche: | With your fine fancies quaintly each, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.116 | Yes, yes; the lines are very quaintly writ; | Yes, yes: the lines are very queintly writ, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.117 | Why then, a ladder, quaintly made of cords, | Why then a Ladder quaintly made of Cords |