| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iii.33 | But bid farewell, and go. When you sued staying, | But bid farewell, and goe: / When you sued staying, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.20 | Who, but for staying on our controversy, | Who but for staying on our Controuersie, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.48.1 | Staying no longer question. | Staying no longer question. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.299 | By staying there so long till all were lost. | By staying there so long, till all were lost. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.viii.59 | no staying. – In despite of the devils and hell, have | no staying: in despight of the diuels and hell, haue |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.105 | My haste made me unmannerly. There is staying | My hast made me vnmannerly. There is staying |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.96 | Staying the odds by adding four. | Staying the oddes by adding foure. |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.86 | No longer staying but to give the Mother | No longer staying, but to giue the Mother |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.128 | Staying for thine to keep him company. | Staying for thine to keepe him companie: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.9 | Staying for waftage. O, be thou my Charon, | Staying for waftage. O be thou my Charon, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.245 | Besides, thy staying will abridge thy life. | Besides, thy staying will abridge thy life: |