| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.59 | Exceeding pleasant: none a stranger there, | Exceeding pleasant: none a stranger there, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.39.1 | Pleasant and helpful to him! | Pleasant and helpfull to him. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iii.139 | Why, here it is. Welcome these pleasant days! | Why heere it is, welcome those pleasant dayes. |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.260 | We are glad the Dauphin is so pleasant with us. | We are glad the Dolphin is so pleasant with vs, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.282 | And tell the pleasant Prince this mock of his | And tell the pleasant Prince, this Mocke of his |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.390 | But like a pleasant slumber in thy lap? | But like a pleasant slumber in thy lap? |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iv.90.1 | Your grace is grown so pleasant. | Your Grace is growne so pleasant. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.93.1 | Come, you are pleasant. | Come you are pleasant. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.72 | If gall or wormwood have a pleasant taste, | If gall or worm wood haue a pleasant tast, |
| King Lear | KL IV.ii.10 | What most he should dislike seems pleasant to him; | What most he should dislike, seemes pleasant to him; |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.168 | The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices | The Gods are iust, and of our pleasant vices |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.130 | By my troth, most pleasant! How both did fit it! | By my troth most pleasant, how both did fit it. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.3 | dinner have been sharp and sententious, pleasant | dinner haue beene sharpe & sententious: pleasant |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.360 | We have had pastimes here and pleasant game: | We haue had pastimes heere, and pleasant game, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.775 | At courtship, pleasant jest, and courtesy, | At courtship, pleasant iest, and curtesie, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vi.1 | This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air | This Castle hath a pleasant seat, / The ayre |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.38 | To make thy riches pleasant. What's yet in this | To make thy riches pleasant: what's yet in this |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.107 | You are pleasant, sir, and speak apace. | You are pleasant sir, and speake apace. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.34 | O, he's returned, and as pleasant as ever he | O he's return'd, and as pleasant as euer he |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.316 | By my troth, a pleasant-spirited lady. | By my troth a pleasant spirited Lady. |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.98 | His body to that pleasant country's earth, | His Body to that pleasant Countries Earth, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.106 | And then awake as from a pleasant sleep. | And then awake, as from a pleasant sleepe. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.128 | Are come to play a pleasant comedy; | Are come to play a pleasant Comedie, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.4 | The pleasant garden of great Italy, | The pleasant garden of great Italy, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.46 | Your ancient, trusty, pleasant servant Grumio. | Your ancient trustie pleasant seruant Grumio: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.239 | For thou are pleasant, gamesome, passing courteous, | For thou art pleasant, gamesome, passing courteous, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.i.56 | That I have been thus pleasant with you both. | That I haue beene thus pleasant with you both. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.i.66 | More pleasant, pithy, and effectual, | More pleasant, pithy, and effectuall, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.v.72 | Like pleasant travellers, to break a jest | Like pleasant trauailors to breake a Iest |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.66 | I have upon a high and pleasant hill | I haue vpon a high and pleasant hill |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.255 | Upon the north side of this pleasant chase. | Vpon the North-side of this pleasant Chase, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.i.61 | Well, sweet queen, you are pleasant with me. | Well sweete Queene you are pleasant with me, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.i.13 | As it hath been to us rare, pleasant, speedy, | As it hath beene to vs, rare, pleasant, speedie, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.191 | merrily set down; or a very pleasant thing indeed, and | merrily set downe: or a very pleasant thing indeede, and |