| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.134 | Conscience and grace to the profoundest pit! | Conscience and Grace, to the profoundest Pit. |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.94 | O, a pit of clay for to be made | O a Pit of Clay for to be made, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.118 | (sings) O, a pit of clay for to be made | O a Pit of Clay for to be made, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.ii.64 | food for powder, they'll fill a pit as well as better. | foode for Powder: they'le fill a Pit, as well as better: |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.v.23 | Our enemies have beat us to the pit. | Our Enemies haue beat vs to the Pit: |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.129 | pit – burning, scalding, stench, consumption! Fie, fie, | pit; burning, scalding, stench, consumption: Fye, fie, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.v.15 | And at the pit of Acheron | And at the pit of Acheron |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.iii.13 | They are all couched in a pit hard by | They are all couch'd in a pit hard by |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.iv.2 | parts. Be pold, I pray you. Follow me into the pit, and | parts: be pold (I pray you) follow me into the pit, and |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.138 | Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea | Into a pit of Inke, that the wide sea |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.218 | And soon lie Richard in an earthly pit. | And soone lye Richard in an Earthie Pit. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.98 | And when they showed me this abhorred pit, | And when they shew'd me this abhorred pit, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.176 | And tumble me into some loathsome pit | And tumble me into some loathsome pit, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.187.1 | Demetrius drags the body of Bassianus into the pit and | |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.193 | Straight will I bring you to the loathsome pit | Straight will I bring you to the lothsome pit, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.198.1 | He falls into the pit | |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.224 | In this detested, dark, blood-drinking pit. | In this detested, darke, blood-drinking pit. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.230 | And shows the ragged entrails of this pit. | And shewes the ragged intrailes of the pit: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.240 | Of this deep pit, poor Bassianus' grave. | Of this deepe pit, poore Bassianus graue: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.273 | Which overshades the mouth of that same pit | Which ouer-shades the mouth of that same pit: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.277 | This is the pit, and this the elder tree. | This is the pit, and this the Elder tree, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.283 | Sirs, drag them from the pit unto the prison. | Sirs drag them from the pit vnto the prison, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.286.2 | body from the pit | |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.286 | What are they in this pit? O wondrous thing! | What are they in this pit, / Oh wondrous thing! |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.129 | And made a brine-pit with our bitter tears? | And made a brine pit with our bitter teares? |