| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.17 | For I have ever varnished my friends – | For I haue euer verified my Friends, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.131 | And set a double varnish on the fame | And set a double varnish on the fame |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.43 | I confess both. They are both the varnish of a | I confesse both, they are both the varnish of a |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.242 | Beauty doth varnish age, as if new-born, | Beauty doth varnish Age, as if new borne, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.v.32 | To gaze on Christian fools with varnished faces; | To gaze on Christian fooles with varnisht faces: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.49 | To be new varnished. Well, but to my choice. | To be new varnisht: Well, but to my choise. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.90 | I will a round unvarnished tale deliver | I will a round vn-varnish'd u Tale deliuer, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.ii.36 | But only painted, like his varnished friends? | But onely painted like his varnisht Friends: |