| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry V | H5 III.i.32 | Straining upon the start. The game's afoot! | Straying vpon the Start. The Game's afoot: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.176 | Seeking a way and straying from the way, | Seeking a way, and straying from the way, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.64 | Win straying souls with modesty again; | Win straying Soules with modesty againe, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.758 | Full of straying shapes, of habits, and of forms, | Full of straying shapes, of habits, and of formes |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.88 | O, thus I found her, straying in the park, | Oh thus I found her straying in the Parke, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.v.24 | And there the strawy Greeks, ripe for his edge, | And there the straying Greekes, ripe for his edge, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.v.15 | This world's a city full of straying streets, | This world's a Citty full of straying Streetes, |