| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Sonnets | Sonn.12.8 | Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard: | Borne on the beare with white and bristly beard: |
| Venus and Adonis | Ven.620 | Of bristly pikes that ever threat his foes; | Of brisly pikes that euer threat his foes, |