| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.155 | but unsuitable, just like the brooch and the toothpick, | but vnsuteable, iust like the brooch & the tooth-pick, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.257 | Go to, sir. You were beaten in Italy for picking a | Go too sir, you were beaten in Italy for picking a |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.7 | the ruff and sing, ask questions and sing, pick his teeth | the Ruffe and sing, aske questions and sing, picke his teeth, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.v.12 | 'Twas a good lady, 'twas a good lady. We may pick | Twas a good Lady, 'twas a good Lady. Wee may picke |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.66.1 | Smarting in lingering pickle! | Smarting in lingring pickle. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.120 | Luxuriously picked out. For I am sure, | Luxuriously pickt out. For I am sure, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.292 | Have I the aspic in my lips? Dost fall? | Haue I the Aspicke in my lippes? Dost fall? |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.349 | This is an aspic's trail; and these fig leaves | This is an Aspickes traile, / And these Figge-leaues |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.350 | Have slime upon them, such as th' aspic leaves | haue slime vpon them, such / As th'Aspicke leaues |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iv.21 | Yes, I think he is not a pick-purse nor a horse-stealer, | Yes, I thinke he is not a picke purse, nor a horsestealer, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.198 | As I could pick my lance. | As I could picke my Lance. |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.i.25 | He could not stay to pick them in a pile | He could not stay to picke them, in a pile |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.41 | Will force him think I have picked the lock, and ta'en | Will force him thinke I haue pick'd the lock, and t'ane |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.389 | As these poor pickaxes can dig: and when | As these poore Pickaxes can digge: and when |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.10 | The penitent instrument to pick that bolt, | The penitent Instrument to picke that Bolt, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.179 | one man picked out of ten thousand. | one man pick'd out of two thousand. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.343 | And do still, by these pickers and stealers. | So I do still, by these pickers and stealers. |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.92 | A pickaxe and a spade, a spade, | A Pickhaxe and a Spade, a Spade, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.138 | is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so | is growne so picked, that the toe of the Pesant comes so |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.i.49 | ‘ At hand, quoth pick-purse.’ | At hand quoth Pick-purse. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.i.51 | chamberlain,’ for thou variest no more from picking of | Chamberlaine: For thou variest no more from picking of |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.360 | could the world pick thee out three such enemies again, | could the World picke thee out three such Enemyes againe, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.25 | By smiling pickthanks and base newsmongers, | By smiling Pick-thankes, and base Newes-mongers; |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.52 | who picked my pocket? | who pick'd my Pocket? |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.59 | many a hair, and I'll be sworn my pocket was picked. | many a hayre; and Ile be sworne my Pocket was pick'd: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.66 | now you pick a quarrel to beguile me of it. I bought you | now you picke a quarrell, to beguile me of it: I bought you |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.80 | but I shall have my pocket picked? I have lost a seal-ring | but I shall haue my Pocket pick'd? I haue lost a Seale-Ring |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.97 | arras, and had my pocket picked. This house is turned | Arras, and had my Pocket pickt: this House is turn'd |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.98 | bawdy-house, they pick pockets. | Bawdy-house, they picke Pockets. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.154 | picking thy pocket? Why, thou whoreson impudent | picking thy pocket? Why thou horson impudent |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.166 | frailty. You confess then, you picked my pocket? | frailty. You confesse then you pickt my Pocket? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.363 | night, and we must hence and leave it unpicked. | night, and wee must hence, and leaue it vnpickt. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.19 | black George Barnes, and Francis Pickbone, and Will | blacke George Bare, and Francis Pick-bone, and Will |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.196 | Of dainty and such picking grievances, | Of daintie, and such picking Grieuances: |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.86 | Picked from the worm-holes of long-vanished days, | Pickt from the worme-holes of long-vanisht dayes, |
| Henry V | H5 III.ii.100 | I sall quit you with gud leve, as I may pick occasion: that | I sall quit you with gud leue, as I may pick occasion: that |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.x.7 | I climbed into this garden, to see if I can eat grass, or pick | I climb'd into this Garden, to see if I can eate Grasse, or picke |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.52 | A field of plate, a wood of picks advanced. | A field of plate, a wood of pickes aduanced: |
| King John | KJ I.i.190 | He and his toothpick at my worship's mess, | Hee and his tooth-picke at my worships messe, |
| King John | KJ I.i.193 | My picked man of countries: ‘ My dear sir ’ – | My picked man of Countries: my deare sir, |
| King John | KJ III.iv.167 | And pick strong matter of revolt and wrath | And picke strong matter of reuolt, and wrath |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.148 | Now for the bare-picked bone of majesty | Now for the bare-pickt bone of Maiesty, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.244 | 'Chill pick your teeth, zir. Come; no matter vor | Chill picke your teeth Zir: come, no matter vor |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.207 | Are pick-purses in love, and we deserve to die. | Are picke-purses in Loue, and we deserue to die. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.13 | picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, | picked, too spruce, too affected, too odde, as it were, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.315 | This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons peas, | This fellow pickes vp wit as Pigeons pease, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.541 | Cannot pick out five such, take each one in his vein. | Cannot pricke out fiue such, take each one in's vaine. |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.64 | As mice by lions, hath picked out an act, | As Myce, by Lyons) hath pickt out an act, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.15 | him, sir, a strange picklock, which we have sent to the | him Sir, a strange Pick-lock, which we haue sent to the |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.48 | Picked from the chaff and ruin of the times | Pickt from the chaffe and ruine of the times, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.120 | made me drunk, and afterward picked my pocket. | |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.141 | Pistol, did you pick Master Slender's purse? | Pistoll, did you picke M. Slenders purse? |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.148 | No, it is false, if it is a pick-purse. | No, it is false, if it is a picke-purse. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.22 | hath this Flemish drunkard picked – with the devil's | hath this Flemish drunkard pickt (with / The Deuills |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.18 | and a throng – to your manor of Pickt-hatch, go. You'll | and a throng, to your Mannor of Pickt-hatch: goe, you'll |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.100 | Out of this silence yet I picked a welcome, | Out of this silence yet, I pickt a welcome: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.231 | with love than I will get again with drinking, pick out | with loue, then I will get againe with drinking, picke out |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.244 | will fetch you a tooth-picker now from the furthest inch | will fetch you a tooth-picker now from the furthest inch |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.447.1 | For 'tis of aspics' tongues! | For 'tis of Aspickes tongues. |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.104 | Not to pick bad from bad, but by bad mend! | Not to picke bad, from bad; but by bad, mend. |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.30 | if in our youths we could pick up some pretty | if in our youthes we could picke vp some prettie |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.22 | And twice today picked out the dullest scent. | And twice to day pick'd out the dullest sent, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.247 | The strangeness of this business. At picked leisure, | The strangenesse of this businesse, at pickt leisure |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.281 | How cam'st thou in this pickle? | How cam'st thou in this pickle? |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.282 | I have been in such a pickle since I saw you | I haue bin in such a pickle since I saw you |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.ii.12 | Like empty purses picked. And his poor self, | Like empty purses pickt; and his poore selfe |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.116 | pickle-herring! (To Feste) How now, sot! | pickle herring: How now Sot. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.81.1 | (picks up the letter) | |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.70 | She drops and picks up the letter | |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.137.1 | She picks up the pieces of the letter | |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.25 | pick flowers with Proserpine. Then will I make Palamon | picke flowers with Proserpine, then will I make / Palamon |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.74 | Softly, dear sir; (he picks his pockets) good | Softly, deere sir: good |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.610 | of lethargy I picked and cut most of their festival | of Lethargie, I pickd and cut most of their Festiuall |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.748 | fantastical. A great man, I'll warrant. I know by the picking | fantasticall: A great man, Ile warrant; I know by the picking |