| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL III.i.6 | Seek him with candle, bring him dead or living | Seeke him with Candle: bring him dead, or liuing |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.39 | Than without candle may go dark to bed – | Then without Candle may goe darke to bed: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.i.45 | candle, I warrant thee! Come, neighbour Mugs, we'll | Candle, I warrant thee. Come neighbour Mugges, wee'll |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.125 | I had rather hear a brazen canstick turned, | I had rather heare a Brazen Candlestick turn'd, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.158 | What! You are as a candle, the | What? you are as a candle, the |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.160 | A wassail candle, my lord, all tallow – if I did | A Wassell-Candle, my Lord; all Tallow: if I did |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.241 | drinks off candles' ends for flap-dragons, and rides the | drinkes off Candles ends for Flap-dragons, and rides the |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.295 | You whoreson candle-mine you, how | You whorson Candle-myne you, how |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.43 | The horsemen sit like fixed candlesticks, | The Horsemen sit like fixed Candlesticks, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vii.83 | Ye shall have a hempen caudle then, and the help of | Ye shall haue a hempen Candle then, & the help of |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.1 | Here burns my candle out; ay, here it dies, | Heere burnes my Candle out; I, heere it dies, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.96 | This candle burns not clear; 'tis I must snuff it, | This Candle burnes not cleere, 'tis I must snuffe it, |
| King John | KJ III.iii.12 | Bell, book, and candle shall not drive me back | Bell, Booke, & Candle, shall not driue me back, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.213 | So out went the candle and we were left darkling. | so out went the Candle,and we were left darkling. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.172.1 | A caudle, ho! | A Candle hoa! |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.267 | Dark needs no candles now, for dark is light. | Dark needs no Candles now, for dark is light. |
| Macbeth | Mac II.i.5 | Their candles are all out. Take thee that too. | Their Candles are all out: take thee that too. |
| Macbeth | Mac V.v.23 | The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! | The way to dusty death. Out, out, breefe Candle, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vi.41 | What, must I hold a candle to my shames? | What, must I hold a Candle to my shames? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.79 | Thus hath the candle singed the moth. | Thus hath the candle sing'd the moath: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.90 | How far that little candle throws his beams! | How farre that little candell throwes his beames, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.92 | When the moon shone we did not see the candle. | When the moone shone we did not see the candle? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.220 | For, by these blessed candles of the night, | And by these blessed Candles of the night, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.102 | Till candles and starlight and moonshine be out. | Till Candles, & Star-light, & Moone-shine be out. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.242 | He dares not come there, for the candle. For, | He dares not come there for the candle. For |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.18 | With candle-wasters – bring him yet to me, | With candle-wasters: bring him yet to me, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.38 | I'll be a candle-holder and look on; | Ile be a Candle-holder and looke on, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.9 | Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day | Nights Candles are burnt out, and Iocond day |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.45 | pair of boots that have been candle-cases, one buckled, | paire of bootes that haue beene candle-cases, one buckled, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.v.14 | And if you please to call it a rush-candle, | And if you please to call it a rush Candle, |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.81 | my hand, help me to a candle, and pen, ink, and paper. | my hand, helpe me to a Candle, and pen, inke, and paper: |