| 1H6 I.v.2 | [Talbot alone] Our English troops retire, I cannot stay them |
| 2H4 IV.i.121 | [Mowbray to Westmorland] there was nothing could have stayed / My father from the breast of Bolingbroke |
| AYL I.i.125 | [Charles to Oliver, of Orlando] you might stay him from his intendment |
| JC IV.iii.126 | [Poet to Lucilius, of seeing the Generals] Nothing but death shall stay me |
| Luc.323 | [of obstacles to Tarquin's plan] all these poor forbiddings could not stay him |
| MV III.ii.24.1 | [Portia to Bassanio] I speak too long, but 'tis to piece the time ... / To stay you from election |
| TNK epilogue.9 | [Speaker to audience] 'Tis in vain, I see, to stay ye |
| TS III.ii.23 | [Tranio as Lucentio to Katherina and Baptista, of Petruchio] Whatever fortune stays him from his word |