| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.v.65 | Shall die a beggar. Ink and paper, Charmian. | shall dye a Begger. Inke and paper Charmian. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.v.76 | Get me ink and paper. | Get me Inke and Paper, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.13 | If the skin were parchment and the blows you gave were ink, | If yr skin were parchment, & ye blows you gaue were ink, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.32.1 | Though ink be made of gall. | Though Inke be made of Gall. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.ii.20 | Black as the ink that's on thee! Senseless bauble, | Blacke as the Inke that's on thee: senselesse bauble, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.50 | Turning your books to graves, your ink to blood, | Turning your Bookes to Graues, your Inke to Blood, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.66 | I'll call for pen and ink, and write my mind. | Ile call for Pen and Inke, and write my minde: |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.48 | Art thou there, Lod'wick? Give me ink and paper. | Art thou thete Lodwicke, giue me incke and paper? |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.59 | Hast thou pen, ink, and paper ready, Lodowick? | Hast thou pen, inke and paper ready Lodowike, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.124 | Come, Lod'wick, hast thou turned thy ink to gold? | Come Lodwick hast thou turnd thy inke to golde, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.237 | draweth from my snow-white pen the ebon-coloured ink | draweth from my snow-white penthe ebon coloured Inke, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.26 | ink. His intellect is not replenished. He is only an | inke. / His intellect is not replenished, hee is onely an |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.323 | Until his ink were tempered with Love's sighs. | Vntill his Inke were tempred with Loues sighes: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.41 | Beauteous as ink – a good conclusion. | Beauteous as Incke: a good conclusion. |
| 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 |
| Pericles | Per III.i.65 | Bid Nestor bring me spices, ink and paper, | Bid Nestor bring me Spices, Incke, and Taper, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.23 | Give me some ink and paper in my tent: | Giue me some Inke and Paper in my Tent: |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.49 | Give me some ink and paper. | Giue me some Inke and Paper: |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.75 | Set it down. Is ink and paper ready? | Set it downe. Is Inke and Paper ready? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.25 | Thou knowest my lodging. Get me ink and paper, | Thou knowest my lodging, get me inke and paper, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.105 | Give me pen and ink. (Writes) | Giue me pen and inke. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.57 | In whose comparison all whites are ink | (In whose comparison, all whites are Inke) |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.42 | full of invention. Taunt him with the licence of ink. If | full of inuention: taunt him with the license of Inke: if |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.47 | in thy ink, though thou write with a goose pen, no | in thy inke, though thou write with a Goose-pen, no |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.13 | Prague that never saw pen and ink very wittily said to | Prage that neuer saw pen and inke, very wittily sayd to |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.81 | my hand, help me to a candle, and pen, ink, and paper. | my hand, helpe me to a Candle, and pen, inke, and paper: |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.110 | By this hand, I am! Good fool, some ink, | By this hand I am: good foole, some inke, |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.118 | brains. I will fetch you light, and paper, and ink. | brains / I will fetch you light, and paper, and inke. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.283 | Why, as black as ink. | Why, as blacke as Inke. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.75 | Write till your ink be dry, and with your tears | Write till your inke be dry: and with your teares |