| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.164 | Moist Hesperus hath quenched her sleepy lamp, | Moist Hesperus hath quench'd her sleepy Lampe: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.1 | Enter Charmian, Iras, and Alexas | Enter Enobarbus, Lamprius, a Southsayer, Rannius, Lucillius, Charmian, Iras, Mardian the Eunuch, and Alexas. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.5 | The lamps of night in revel; is not more manlike | The Lampes of night in reuell: Is not more manlike |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.84 | Our lamp is spent, it's out. Good sirs, take heart. | Our Lampe is spent, it's out. Good sirs, take heart, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.100 | her to but to make a lamp of her and run from her by | her too, but to make a Lampe of her, and run from her by |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.316 | My wasting lamps some fading glimmer left, | My wasting lampes some fading glimmer left; |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.27 | Knight of the Burning Lamp. | Knight of the burning Lampe. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.8 | These eyes, like lamps whose wasting oil is spent, | These Eyes, like Lampes,whose wasting Oyle is spent, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.31 | Now are they but one lamp, one light, one sun. | Now are they but one Lampe, one Light, one Sunne: |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iv.7 | And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp; | And yet darke Night strangles the trauailing Lampe: |
| Pericles | Per III.i.62 | And e'er-remaining lamps, the belching whale | The ayre remayning lampes, the belching Whale, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.221 | My oil-dried lamp and time-bewasted light | My oyle-dride Lampe, and time-bewasted light |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.45 | We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day. | We wast our lights in vaine, lights, lights, by day; |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.20 | As daylight doth a lamp. Her eyes in heaven | As day-light doth a Lampe, her eye in heauen, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.51 | with the lampass, infected with the fashions, full of | with the Lampasse, infected with the fashions, full of |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.23.1 | As Hymen's lamps shall light you. | As Hymens Lamps shall light you. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.158 | To feed for aye her lamp and flames of love; | To feede for aye her lampe and flames of loue. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.39 | These the bright lamps of beauty, that command | These the bright lamps of beauty, that command |