| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.ii.59 | Tell me, and dally not: where is the money? | Tell me, and dally not, where is the monie? |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.291 | Come for the third, Laertes. You do but dally. | Come for the third. /Laertes, you but dally, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iii.55 | What, is it a time to jest and dally now? | What, is it a time to iest and dally now. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.v.11 | By sudden flight. Come, dally not, be gone. | By sodaine flight. Come, dally not, be gone. |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.91 | If thou shouldst dally half an hour, his life, | If thou should'st dally halfe an houre, his life |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.98 | with his royal finger thus dally with my excrement, | with his royall finger thus dallie with my excrement, |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.12 | Take heed you dally not before your King, | Take heed you dally not before your King, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iv.68 | Dally not with the gods, but get thee gone. | Dallie not with the gods, but get thee gone. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.14 | Nay, that's certain. They that dally nicely with | Nay that's certaine: they that dally nicely with |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.18 | Why, sir, her name's a word, and to dally with that | Why sir, her names a word, and to dallie with that |