| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.61 | Videlicet, a brothel, or so forth. | Videlicet, a Brothell, or so forth. |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.241 | Make it more like a tavern or a brothel | Makes it more like a Tauerne, or a Brothell, |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.93 | brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' | Brothels, thy hand out of Plackets, thy pen from Lenders |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.233 | at the door of a brothel-house for the sign of blind | at the doore of a brothel-house for the signe of blinde |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.V.1 | Marina thus the brothel 'scapes, and chances | Marina thus the Brothell scapes, and chaunces |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.i.13 | Thy mistress is o'th' brothel. Son of sixteen, | Thy Mistris is o'th'Brothell. Some of sixteen, |