| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL I.iii.110 | And with a kind of umber smirch my face. | And with a kinde of vmber smirch my face, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.15 | And now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch | And now no soyle nor cautell doth besmerch |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.121 | Even here between the chaste unsmirched brows | Euen heere betweene the chaste vnsmirched brow |
| Henry V | H5 III.iii.17 | Do, with his smirched complexion, all fell feats | Doe with his smyrcht complexion all fell feats, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.110 | Our gayness and our gilt are all besmirched | Our Gaynesse and our Gilt are all besmyrcht |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.133 | in the smirched worm-eaten tapestry, where his codpiece | in the smircht worm eaten tapestrie, where his cod-peece |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.131 | Who smirched thus and mired with infamy, | Who smeered thus, and mir'd with infamie, |