| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.131 | And set a double varnish on the fame | And set a double varnish on the fame |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.43 | I confess both. They are both the varnish of a | I confesse both, they are both the varnish of a |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.242 | Beauty doth varnish age, as if new-born, | Beauty doth varnish Age, as if new borne, |