| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.116 | Though he be painted one way like a Gorgon, | Though he be painted one way like a Gorgon, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.3 | Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods | Then that of painted pompe? Are not these woods |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.266 | Not so; but I answer you right painted cloth, | Not so: but I answer you right painted cloath, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.109 | The mortal gate of th' city, which he painted | The mortall Gate of th' Citie, which he painted |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.6 | From th' inward of thee? One but painted thus | From th'inward of thee? One, but painted thus |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.478 | So as a painted tyrant Pyrrhus stood, | So as a painted Tyrant Pyrrhus stood, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.53 | Than is my deed to my most painted word. | Then is my deede, to my most painted word. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.ii.25 | the painted cloth, where the glutton's dogs licked his | the painted Cloth, where the Gluttons Dogges licked his |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 induction.1 | INDUCTION Enter Rumour, painted full of tongues | INDVCTION Enter Rumour. |
| Henry V | H5 III.v.49 | With pennons painted in the blood of Harfleur! | With Penons painted in the blood of Harflew: |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.30 | is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify | is painted blinde, with a Muffler afore his eyes, to signifie |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.31 | to you that Fortune is blind; and she is painted also | to you, that Fortune is blinde; and shee is painted also |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.12 | With purple falchion, painted to the hilt | With Purple Faulchion, painted to the Hilt, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.71 | That's the plain truth. Your painted gloss discovers, | That's the plaine truth; your painted glosse discouers |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.63 | The skies are painted with unnumbered sparks, | The Skies are painted with vnnumbred sparkes, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.230 | O, were it painted, I would wipe it off | O were it painted I would wipe it of, |
| King John | KJ III.i.105 | Is cold in amity and painted peace, | Is cold in amitie, and painted peace, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.253 | Not painted with the crimson spots of blood. | Not painted with the Crimson spots of blood, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.14 | Needs not the painted flourish of your praise. | Needs not the painted flourish of your praise: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.237 | Fie, painted rhetoric! O, she needs it not! | Fie painted Rethoricke, O she needs it not, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.573 | the painted cloth for this. Your lion, that holds his | the painted cloth for this: your Lion that holds his |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.55 | That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed, | That feares a painted Deuill. If he doe bleed, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.65 | Painted upon a pole, and underwrit, | Painted vpon a pole, and vnder-writ, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.v.6 | standing-bed and truckle-bed. 'Tis painted about with | standing-bed and truckle-bed: 'tis painted about with |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.235 | And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. | And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blinde. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.167 | And pluck the wings from painted butterflies | And plucke the wings from painted Butterflies, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.296 | How low am I, thou painted maypole? Speak! | How low am I, thou painted May-pole? Speake, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.244 | in my forehead, and let me be vilely painted; and in such | in my forehead, and let me be vildely painted, and in such |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.259 | Concerning this, sir – O, well-painted passion! – | Concerning this Sir, (oh well-painted passion) |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.179 | Men are but gilded loam, or painted clay. | Men are but gilded loame, or painted clay. |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.16 | With painted imagery had said at once | With painted Imagery had said at once, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.240 | Poor painted queen, vain flourish of my fortune! | Poore painted Queen, vain flourish of my fortune, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.83 | I called thee then poor shadow, painted queen, | I call'd thee then, poore Shadow, painted Queen, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.5 | Bearing a Tartar's painted bow of lath, | Bearing a Tartars painted Bow of lath, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.49 | Adonis painted by a running brook, | Adonis painted by a running brooke, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.55 | As lively painted as the deed was done. | As liuelie painted, as the deede was done. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.174 | Because his painted skin contents the eye? | Because his painted skin contents the eye. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.143 | With colours fairer painted their foul ends. | With colours fairer, painted their foule ends. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.28 | and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but | and had but this fish painted; not a holiday-foole there but |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.199 | Wrought he not well that painted it? | Wrought he not well that painted it. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.ii.36 | But only painted, like his varnished friends? | But onely painted like his varnisht Friends: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.126 | And with that quaint hope braves your mightiness. | And with that painted hope, braues your Mightinesse, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.97 | Ye white-limed walls, ye alehouse painted signs! | Ye white-limb'd walls, ye Ale-house painted signes, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.13 | From Cupid's shoulder pluck his painted wings, | From Cupids shoulder plucke his painted wings, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.46 | Good traders in the flesh, set this in your painted | Good traders in the flesh, set this in your painted |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.53 | That's because the one is painted, and the other | That's because the one is painted, and the other |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.55 | How painted? And how out of count? | How painted? and how out of count? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.56 | Marry, sir, so painted to make her fair, that no | Marry sir, so painted to make her faire, that no |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.65 | Hung with the painted favours of their ladies, | (Hung with the painted favours of their Ladies) |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.101 | No more than, were I painted, I would wish | No more then were I painted, I would wish |