| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xi.37 | The lean and wrinkled Cassius; and 'twas I | The leane and wrinkled Cassius, and 'twas I |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.69 | To lean upon. But it would warm his spirits | To leane vpon. But it would warme his spirits |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.159 | Into the lean and slippered pantaloon, | Into the leane and slipper'd Pantaloone, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.312 | feels no pain, the one lacking the burden of lean and | feeles no paine: the one lacking the burthen of leane and |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.358 | A lean cheek, which you have not; a blue eye | A leane cheeke, which you haue not: a blew eie |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.22 | Some scar of it; lean upon a rush, | Some scarre of it: Leane vpon a rush |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.94 | I have but lean luck in the match, and yet | I haue but leane lucke in the match, and yet |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.240 | I'll lean upon one crutch and fight with t'other | Ile leane vpon one Crutch, and fight with tother, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iii.23 | fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service – | fat King, and your leane Begger is but variable seruice |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.73 | hath no lean wardrobe. 'Sblood, I am as melancholy | hath no leane Wardrobe. I am as Melancholly |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.ii.107 | And lards the lean earth as he walks along. | and Lards the leane earth as he walkes along: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.319 | Here comes lean Jack, here comes bare-bone. How now | Heere comes leane Iacke, heere comes bare-bone. How now |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.459 | fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved. | fat, be to be hated, then Pharaohs leane Kine are to be loued. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.67 | Perceived Northumberland did lean to him, | Perceiu'd Northumberland did leane to him, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.164 | Lean on your health, the which, if you give o'er | Leane-on your health, the which if you giue-o're |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.267 | a little, lean, old, chopped, bald shot. Well said, i'faith! | a little, leane, old, chopt, bald Shot. Well said |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.116 | he did naturally inherit of his father he hath like lean, | hee did naturally inherite of his Father, hee hath, like leane, |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.82 | And something lean to cutpurse of quick hand. | and something leane to Cut-purse of quicke hand: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.35 | Lean raw-boned rascals! Who would e'er suppose | Leane raw-bon'd Rascals, who would e're suppose, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.43 | First, lean thine aged back against mine arm, | First, leane thine aged Back against mine Arme, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.ii.11 | Lean famine, quartering steel, and climbing fire; | Leane Famine, quartering Steele, and climbing Fire, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.127 | Are lank and lean with thy extortions. | Are lanke and leane with thy Extortions. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.68 | Sweet Duke of York, our prop to lean upon, | Sweet Duke of Yorke, our Prop to leane vpon, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.188 | Lord Warwick, on thy shoulder will I lean; | Lord Warwicke, on thy shoulder will I leane, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.193 | Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; | Yond Cassius has a leane and hungry looke, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.113 | As that same ague which hath made you lean. | As that same Ague which hath made you leane. |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.42 | Have forty lean slaves this day stoned to death. | Haue fortie leane slaues this daie stoned to death. |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.201 | Another lean unwashed artificer | Another leane, vnwash'd Artificer, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.26 | Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits | Fat paunches haue leane pates: and dainty bits, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.97 | world, sometime to lean upon my poor shoulder, and | world) sometime to leane vpon my poore shoulder, and |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.47 | constable, and my name is Elbow. I do lean upon | Constable, and my name is Elbow; I doe leane vpon |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vi.19 | Lean, rent, and beggared by the strumpet wind. | Leane, rent, and begger'd by the strumpet winde? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.104 | And that the lean abhorred monster keeps | And that the leane abhorred Monster keepes |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.13 | The want that makes him lean. Who dares, who dares, | The want that makes him leaue: who dares? who dares |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.94 | The trees, though summer, yet forlorn and lean, | The Trees though Sommer, yet forlorne and leane, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.334 | Out of my lean and low ability, | Out of my leane and low ability |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.7 | well, nor lean enough to be thought a good student. But | well, nor leane enough to bee thought a good Studient: but |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.v.26 | Ay, and what I do too; look there, I'll but lean, | I, and what I do too: looke thee, Ile but leane, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.64.1 | Howe'er you lean to th' nayward. | How e're you leane to th' Nay-ward. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.111 | You'd be so lean that blasts of January | You'ld be so leane, that blasts of Ianuary |