| AYL I.i.7 | [Orlando to Adam, of Oliver] he ... stays me here at home unkept |
| H8 I.i.5 | [Buckingham to Norfolk] An untimely ague / Stayed me a prisoner in my chamber |
| JC II.ii.75 | [Caesar to Decius] Calphurnia here, my wife, stays me at home |
| Luc.917 | [Lucrece as if to opportunity] My Collatine would else have come to me / When Tarquin did, but he was stayed by thee |
| MA III.iii.74 | [Dogberry to Second Watchman] if you meet the Prince in the night, you may stay him |
| MA IV.i.279 | [Beatrice to Benedick] You have stayed me in a happy hour |
| RJ V.iii.187 | [First Watchman to Third Watchman] Stay the Friar too |
| Tit II.iii.181 | [Demetrius to Lavinia] Away, for thou hast stayed us here too long |
| TS IV.ii.83 | [Tranio as Lucentio to Pedant] Your ships are stayed at Venice |
| TS IV.iv.30 | [Pedant as Vincentio to Baptista, of Tranio as Lucentio] to stay him not too long, / I am content ... / To have him matched [i.e. so as not to keep him waiting for too long] |
| WT IV.iv.568 | [Camillo to Florizel] your anchors, who / Do their best office if they can but stay you / Where you'll be loath to be |