| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.259 | There was no thought of pleasing you when | There was no thought of pleasing you when |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.47 | The pleasing punishment that women bear, | The pleasing punishment that women beare) |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.124 | That never object pleasing in thine eye, | That neuer obiect pleasing in thine eye, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.53 | Upon a pleasing treaty, and have hearts | vpon a pleasing Treatie, and haue hearts |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.598 | T' assume a pleasing shape, yea, and perhaps | T'assume a pleasing shape, yea and perhaps |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.413 | look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage; and, as I | Looke, a pleasing Eye, and a most noble Carriage, and as I |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.211 | Charming your blood with pleasing heaviness, | Charming your blood with pleasing heauinesse; |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.73 | So your dislikes, to whom I would be pleasing, | So your dislikes, to whom I would be pleasing, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.43 | A very pleasing night to honest men. | A very pleasing Night to honest men. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.57 | The preyful Princess pierced and pricked a pretty pleasing pricket; | The prayfull Princesse pearst and prickt a prettie pleasing Pricket, |
| Pericles | Per II.v.28 | With such delightful, pleasing harmony. | With such delightfull pleasing harmonie. |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.13 | To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. | To the lasciuious pleasing of a Lute. |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.94 | A cherry lip, a bonny eye, a passing pleasing tongue; | A cherry Lip, a bonny Eye, a passing pleasing tongue: |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.41 | A pleasing cordial, princely Buckingham, | A pleasing Cordiall, Princely Buckingham |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.342 | Can make seem pleasing to her tender years? | Can make seeme pleasing to her tender yeares? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.137 | No, my good lord, it is more pleasing stuff. | No my good Lord, it is more pleasing stuffe. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.102 | More quaint, more pleasing, nor more commendable. | More queint, more pleasing, nor more commendable: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.267 | In pleasing smiles such murderous tyranny. | In pleasing smiles such murderous Tyrannie. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.83 | That blabbed them with such pleasing eloquence, | That blab'd them with such pleasing eloquence, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.47 | Make my aunt merry with some pleasing tale. | Make my Aunt merry, with some pleasing tale. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.119 | She sounded almost at my pleasing tale, | She sounded almost at my pleasing tale, |