| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.241 | As if it fed ye! And how sleek and wanton | As if it fed ye, and how sleeke and wanton |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.192 | Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep a-nights. | Sleeke-headed men, and such as sleepe a-nights: |
| Macbeth | Mac III.ii.27 | Gentle my lord, sleek o'er your rugged looks, | Gentle my Lord, sleeke o're your rugged Lookes, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.3 | And stick muskroses in thy sleek, smooth head, | And sticke muske roses in thy sleeke smoothe head, |