| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.131 | My idleness doth hatch. How now, Enobarbus! | My idlenesse doth hatch. How now Enobarbus. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iii.92 | Holds idleness your subject, I should take you | Holds Idlenesse your subiect, I should take you |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iii.93.1 | For idleness itself. | For Idlenesse it selfe. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iii.94 | To bear such idleness so near the heart | To beare such Idlenesse so neere the heart |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.76.1 | Thrives in our idleness. | Thriues in our Idlenesse. |
| As You Like It | AYL I.i.32 | idleness. | idlenesse. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.194 | The unyoked humour of your idleness. | The vnyoak'd humor of your idlenesse: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.123 | From every region, apes of idleness! | From eu'ry Region, Apes of Idlenesse. |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.51 | Conceives by idleness, and nothing teems | Conceiues by idlenesse, and nothing teemes, |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.70 | Nor conversant with ease and idleness, | Nor conuersant with Ease, and Idlenesse, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.168 | And maidens call it ‘ love in idleness.’ | And maidens call it, Loue in idlenesse. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.321 | have it sterile with idleness or manured with industry, | haue it sterrill with idlenesse, or manured with Industry, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.148 | I found the effect of love in idleness, | I found the effect of Loue in idlenesse, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.59 | Well, sir, for want of other idleness, I'll bide your | Well sir, for want of other idlenesse, Ile bide your |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.8 | Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness. | Weare out thy youth with shapelesse idlenesse. |