| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iii.63 | But, poor old man, thou prunest a rotten tree | But poore old man, thou prun'st a rotten tree, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.118 | Prunes the immortal wing, and cloys his beak, | Prunes the immortall wing, and cloyes his Beake, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.97 | Which makes him prune himself, and bristle up | Which makes him prune himselfe, and bristle vp |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.112 | prune, nor no more truth in thee than in a drawn fox – | Prune; nor no more truth in thee, then in a drawne Fox: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.142 | Hang him, rogue, he lives upon mouldy stewed prunes | hang him Rogue, hee liues vpon mouldie stew'd-Pruines, |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.42 | Unpruned dies; her hedges even-pleached, | Vnpruned, dyes: her Hedges euen pleach'd, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.17 | unpolished, uneducated, unpruned, untrained, or, | vnpolished, vneducated, vnpruned, vntrained, or |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.87 | saving your honour's reverence – for stewed prunes. | (sauing your honors reuerence) for stewd prewyns; |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.96 | and longing, as I said, for prunes, and having | and longing (as I said) for prewyns: and hauing |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.103 | cracking the stones of the foresaid prunes – | cracking the stones of the foresaid prewyns. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.266 | prunes – and, by my troth, I cannot abide the smell of | Prunes) and by my troth, I cannot abide the smell of |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.45 | Her fruit trees all unpruned, her hedges ruined, | Her Fruit-trees all vnpruin'd, her Hedges ruin'd, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.242 | That were a cruel wisdom; do men prune | That were a cruell wisedome, doe men proyne |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.46 | two of ginger, but that I may beg; four pound of prunes, | two of Ginger, but that I may begge: Foure pound of Prewyns, |