| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.137 | thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery. | thou shalt not escape Calumny. Get thee to a Nunnery. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.159 | And smell of calumny. I have begun, | And smell of calumnie. I haue begun, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.176 | Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny | Can censure scape: Back-wounding calumnie |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.72 | That calumny doth use – O, I am out! | That Calumnie doth vse; Oh, I am out, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.73 | That mercy does, for calumny will sear | That Mercy do's, for Calumnie will seare |