| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.90 | The bristled lips before him. He bestrid | The brizled Lippes before him: he bestrid |
| 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 V | H5 II.iii.5 | Boy, bristle thy courage up! For Falstaff, he is dead, | Boy, brissle thy Courage vp: for Falstaffe hee is dead, |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.149 | Doth dogged war bristle his angry crest | Doth dogged warre bristle his angry crest, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.37 | Pard, or boar with bristled hair | Pard, or Boare with bristled haire, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.2 | not open my lips so wide as a bristle may enter, in way of | not open my lippes so wide as a brissle may enter, in way of |