| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.127 | God help, poor souls, how idly do they talk! | God helpe poore soules, how idlely doe they talke. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.74 | When the alarum were struck than idly sit | When the Alarum were strucke, then idly sit |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.28 | you should talk so idly! Tell me, how many good young | you should talke so idlely? Tell me how many good yong |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.357 | So idly to profane the precious time | So idly to prophane the precious time, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.59 | Idly supposed the founder of this law, | Idly suppos'd the founder of this Law, |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.26 | For, my good liege, she is so idly kinged, | For, my good Liege, shee is so idly King'd, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.142 | For living idly here in pomp and ease, | For liuing idly here, in pompe and ease, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.13 | Let's raise the siege. Why live we idly here? | Let's rayse the Siege: why liue we idly here? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.255 | His guilt should be but idly posted over | His guilt should be but idly posted ouer, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.124 | I idly heard; if true or false I know not. | I idely heard: if true, or false I know not. |
| King John | KJ V.i.72 | Mocking the air with colours idly spread, | Mocking the ayre with colours idlely spred, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.171 | I talk but idly, and you laugh at me. | I talke but idly, and you mock at mee. |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.25 | Are idly bent on him that enters next, | Areidlely bent on him that enters next, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.147 | But see, while idly I stood looking on, | But see, while idely I stood looking on, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.20.2 | A thing slipped idly from me. | A thing slipt idlely from me. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.233 | Even then when we sit idly in the sun. | Euen then when we sit idely in the sunne. |