| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| King John | KJ III.i.237 | With slaughter's pencil, where revenge did paint | With slaughters pencill; where reuenge did paint |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.43 | 'Ware pencils, ho! Let me not die your debtor, | Ware pensals. How? Let me not die your debtor, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.ii.40 | yard and the tailor with his last, the fisher with his pencil | Yard, and the Tayler with his Last, the Fisher with his Pensill, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.163 | He is but outside; these pencilled figures are | He is but out-side: These Pensil'd Figures are |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.13 | Which sometime show well pencilled. Nature now | Which sometime show well pencild. Nature now |