| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.ix.17 | Which, being dried with grief, will break to powder, | Which being dried with greefe, will breake to powder, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.ii.63 | Tut, tut, good enough to toss, food for powder, | Tut, tut, good enough to tosse: foode for Powder, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.ii.64 | food for powder, they'll fill a pit as well as better. | foode for Powder: they'le fill a Pit, as well as better: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.111 | give you leave to powder me and eat me too tomorrow. | giue you leaue to powder me, and eat me too to morow. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.120 | Zounds, I am afraid of this gunpowder Percy, though he | I am affraide of this Gun-powder Percy though he |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.48 | As aconitum or rash gunpowder. | As Aconitum, or rash Gun-powder. |
| Henry V | H5 II.i.72 | And from the powdering tub of infamy | and from the Poudring tub of infamy, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.175 | And, touched with choler, hot as gunpowder, | And toucht with Choler, hot as Gunpowder, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.154 | As black as powder fuming into smoke. | as blacke as pouder fuming into smoke, |
| King John | KJ II.i.448 | With swifter spleen than powder can enforce, | With swifter spleene then powder can enforce |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.56 | Ever your fresh whore and your powdered bawd. An | Euer your fresh Whore, and your pouder'd Baud, an |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.vi.10 | And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, | And in their triumph: die like fire and powder; |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.132 | Like powder in a skilless soldier's flask | Like powder in a skillesse Souldiers flaske, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.64 | As violently as hasty powder fired | As violently, as hastie powder fier'd |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.197 | Let me go grind their bones to powder small, | Let me goe grin'd their Bones to powder small, |