| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.52 | for our whetstone: for always the dullness of of the fool is | for our whetstone. for alwaies the dulnesse of the foole, is |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.53 | the whetstone of the wits. How now, wit, whither | the whetstone of the wits. How now Witte, whether |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.227 | Be this the whetstone of your sword; let grief | Be this the Whetstone of your sword, let griefe |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.76 | Now she sharpens – well said, whetstone! | Now she sharpens: well said Whetstone. |