| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.ii.26 | nay, as the pudding to his skin. | nay as the pudding to his skin. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.ii.11 | His leather skin and horns to wear. | His Leather skin, and hornes to weare: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.145 | And tear the stained skin off my harlot brow, | And teare the stain'd skin of my Harlot brow, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.13 | If the skin were parchment and the blows you gave were ink, | If yr skin were parchment, & ye blows you gaue were ink, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.18 | goes in the calf's skin that was killed for the prodigal. | goes in the calues-skin, that was kil'd for the Prodigall: |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.65 | Deny your asking. Take your choice of those | Deny your asking, take your choice of those |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.84 | In asking their good loves; but thou wilt frame | In asking their good loues, but thou wilt frame |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.46 | That shall not be my offer, not thy asking? | That shall not be my Offer, not thy Asking? |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.148 | It will but skin and film the ulcerous place | It will but skin and filme the Vlcerous place, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.45 | eyes; when I shall, first asking your pardon thereunto, | Eyes. When I shall (first asking your Pardon thereunto) |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.112 | Is not parchment made of sheepskins? | Is not Parchment made of Sheep-skinnes? |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.113 | Ay, my lord, and of calves' skins too. | I my Lord, and of Calue-skinnes too. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.23 | underskinker, one that never spake other English in his | vnder Skinker, one that neuer spake other English in his |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.240 | 'Sblood, you starveling, you elf-skin, you dried | Away you Starueling, you Elfe-skin, you dried |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.3 | skin hangs about me like an old lady's loose gown. I am | skinne hangs about me like an olde Ladies loose Gowne: I am |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.ii.50 | How showed his tasking? Seemed it in contempt? | How shew'd his Talking? Seem'd it in contempt? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.355 | And asking every one for Sir John Falstaff. | And asking euery one for Sir Iohn Falstaffe. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.315 | eel-skin – the case of a treble hautboy was a mansion for | Eele-skinne: the Case of a Treble Hoe-boy was a Mansion for |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.93 | The man that once did sell the lion's skin | The man that once did sell the Lyons skin |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.51 | Nay, pray you throw none away, the skin is good for | Nay, pray you throw none away, the skinne is good for |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.77 | Is he a lamb? His skin is surely lent him, | Is he a Lambe? his Skinne is surely lent him, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.300 | Show me one scar charactered on thy skin; | Shew me one skarre, character'd on thy Skinne, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.23 | He shall have the skin of our enemies to make | Hee shall haue the skinnes of our enemies, to make |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.74 | thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be | thing, that of the skin of an innocent Lambe should be |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.22 | Ay, here's a deer whose skin's a keeper's fee: | I, heere's a Deere, whose skin's a Keepers Fee: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.44 | He, on his right, asking a wife for Edward. | He on his right, asking a wife for Edward. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.163 | For not bestowing on him at his asking | For not bestowing on him at his asking, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.52 | Not your demand; it values not your asking. | Not your demand; it values not your asking: |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.48 | Poor sheepskin, how it brawls with him that beateth it! | Poore shipskin how it braules with him that beateth it: |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.7 | Masking, as 'twere, the beauteous burning sun, | Masking as twere the beautious burning Sunne, |
| King John | KJ I.i.141 | My arms such eel-skins stuffed, my face so thin | My armes, such eele-skins stuft, my face so thin, |
| King John | KJ II.i.139 | I'll smoke your skin-coat an I catch you right! | Ile smoake your skin-coat and I catch you right, |
| King John | KJ III.i.129 | And hang a calf's-skin on those recreant limbs. | And hang a Calues skin on those recreant limbes. |
| King John | KJ III.i.131 | And hang a calf's-skin on those recreant limbs. | And hang a Calues-skin on those recreant limbs |
| King John | KJ III.i.133 | And hang a calf's-skin on those recreant limbs. | And hang a Calues-skin on those recreant limbs. |
| King John | KJ III.i.199 | And hang a calf's-skin on his recreant limbs. | And hang a Calues-skin on his recreant limbs. |
| King John | KJ III.i.220 | Hang nothing but a calf's-skin, most sweet lout. | Hang nothing but a Calues skin most sweet lout. |
| King John | KJ III.i.299 | Will not a calf's-skin stop that mouth of thine? | Will not a Calues-skin stop that mouth of thine? |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.80 | Not till I sheathe it in a murderer's skin. | Not till I sheath it in a murtherers skin. |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.7 | Invades us to the skin; so 'tis to thee. | Inuades vs to the skin so: 'tis to thee, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.44 | Upon her skinny lips. You should be women; | Vpon her skinnie Lips: you should be Women, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.109 | His silver skin laced with his golden blood, | His Siluer skinne, lac'd with His Golden Blood, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.124 | Masking the business from the common eye | Masking the Businesse from the common Eye, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.136 | That skins the vice o'th' top. Go to your bosom, | That skins the vice o'th top; goe to your bosome, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.8 | furred with fox and lamb skins too, to signify that craft, | furd with Foxe and Lamb-skins too, to signifie, that craft |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vi.59 | Our masquing mates by this time for us stay. | Our masking mates by this time for vs stay. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.i.100 | your skins are whole, and let burnt sack be the issue. | your skinnes are whole, and let burn'd Sacke be the issue: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.v.1 | What wouldst thou have, boor? What, thickskin? | What wouldst thou haue? (Boore) what? (thick skin) |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.vi.30 | While other sports are tasking of their minds, | While other sports are tasking of their mindes, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.71 | Your buskined mistress and your warrior love, | Your buskin'd Mistresse, and your Warrior loue, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.255 | And there the snake throws her enamelled skin, | And there the snake throwes her enammel'd skinne, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.13 | The shallowest thickskin of that barren sort, | The shallowest thick-skin of that barren sort, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.v.12 | as the skin between his brows. | as the skin betweene his browes. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.60 | (unmasking) | |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.73 | (unmasking) | |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.4 | Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, | Nor scarre that whiter skin of hers, then Snow, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.58 | Do wound the bark, the skin of our fruit trees, | And wound the Barke, the skin of our Fruit-trees, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.ii.77 | Now I'll tell you without asking. My master is | Now Ile tell you without asking. My maister is |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.43 | An alligator stuffed, and other skins | An Allegater stuft, and other skins |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.87 | O mercy, God! What masquing stuff is here? | Oh mercie God, what masking stuffe is heere? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.174 | Because his painted skin contents the eye? | Because his painted skin contents the eye. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.i.122 | married my daughter without asking my good will? | married my daughter without asking my good will? |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.233 | From toe to crown he'll fill our skins with pinches, | From toe to crowne hee'l fill our skins with pinches, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.138 | And on their skins, as on the bark of trees, | And on their skinnes, as on the Barke of Trees, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.244 | Ajax goes up and down the field, asking for | Aiax goes vp and downe the field, asking for |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.23 | break, your gaskins fall. | breake, your gaskins fall. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.208 | That honour saved may upon asking give? | That honour (sau'd) may vpon asking giue. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.46 | The next gloves that I give her shall be dogskin! | The next gloves that I give her shall be dog skin; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.79 | become the pranks and friskins of her madness. Sing | become the prankes / And friskins of her madnes; Sing |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.20 | And bear the sow-skin budget, | and beare the Sow-skin Bowget, |