| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.260 | Truly; and I hold ambition of so airy and | Truely, and I hold Ambition of so ayry and |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.77 | Or airy fowl make men in arms to quake, | Or airie foule make men in armes to quake, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.33 | Which now hath hid the airy floor of heaven | Which now hath hid the airie flower of heauen, |
| King John | KJ III.ii.2 | Some airy devil hovers in the sky | Some ayery Deuill houers in the skie, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.42 | Elves, list your names; silence, you airy toys. | Elues, list your names: Silence you aiery toyes. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.152 | That thou shalt like an airy spirit go. | That thou shalt like an airie spirit go. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.16 | Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing | turnes them to shapes, / And giues to aire nothing, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.13 | Hover about me with your airy wings | Houer about me with your ayery wings, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.128 | Airy succeeders of intestate joys, | Ayery succeeders of intestine ioyes, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.89 | Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word | Three ciuill Broyles, bred of an Ayery word, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.21 | Would through the airy region stream so bright | Would through the ayrie Region streame so bright, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.162 | And make her airy tongue more hoarse than mine | And make her ayrie tongue more hoarse, then |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.54 | This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, | This Ayrie-charme is for, I'le breake my staffe, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.144 | Having his ear full of his airy fame, | Hauing his eare full of his ayery Fame, |