| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.117 | If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear, | If euer from your eye-lids wip'd a teare, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.263 | Until my eyelids will no longer wag. | Vntill my eielids will no longer wag. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.210 | And on your eyelids crown the god of sleep, | And she will sing the Song that pleaseth you, And on your Eye-lids Crowne the God of Sleepe, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.81 | But rather drowsed and hung their eyelids down, | But rather drowz'd, and hung their eye-lids downe, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.7 | That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down | That thou no more wilt weigh my eye-lids downe, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.12 | with turning up your eyelids, sigh a note and sing a | with turning vp your eie: sigh a note and sing a |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.170 | The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid | The iuyce of it, on sleeping eye-lids laid, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.87 | Sleep his seat on thy eyelid. | Sleepe his seate on thy eye-lid. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.104 | And on my eyelids shall conjecture hang, | And on my eie-lids shall Coniecture hang, |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.97 | Her eyelids, cases to those heavenly jewels | her ey-lids, Cases to those heauenly iewels |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.204 | Doth it not then our eyelids sink? I find | Doth it not then our eye-lids sinke? I finde |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.177 | Advanced their eyelids, lifted up their noses | Aduanc'd their eye-lids, lifted vp their noses |