| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.20 | Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. | Like Quilles vpon the fretfull Porpentine: |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.342 | many wearing rapiers are afraid of goosequills and dare | many wearing Rapiers, are affraide of Goose-quils, and dare |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.97 | of a lawyer? Where be his quiddities now, his quillets, | of a Lawyer? where be his Quiddits now? his Quillets? |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.i.76 | purple-hued maltworms; but with nobility and tranquillity, | purple-hu'd-Maltwormes, but with Nobility, and Tranquilitie; |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.17 | But in these nice sharp quillets of the law, | But in these nice sharpe Quillets of the Law, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.3 | we may deliver our supplications in the quill. | wee may deliuer our Supplications in the Quill. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.261 | And do not stand on quillets how to slay him; | And doe not stand on Quillets how to slay him: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.363 | Were almost like a sharp-quilled porpentine; | Were almost like a sharpe-quill'd Porpentine: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.286 | Some tricks, some quillets, how to cheat the devil! | Some tricks, some quillets, how to cheat the diuell. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.121 | The wren with little quill. | The Wren and little quill. |
| Othello | Oth III.i.23 | Prithee keep up thy quillets – there's a poor piece | Prythee keepe vp thy Quillets, ther's a poore peece |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.345 | Farewell the tranquil mind! Farewell content! | Farewell the Tranquill minde; farewell Content; |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.156 | Nor sound his quillets shrilly. Hoar the flamen, | Nor sound his Quillets shrilly: Hoare the Flamen, |